diff --git a/pygobject-2.12.3-memory-leak.patch b/pygobject-2.12.3-memory-leak.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..38556f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pygobject-2.12.3-memory-leak.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+--- pygobject-2.12.3/gobject/pygflags.c.memory-leak	2007-04-19 21:29:49.000000000 -0400
++++ pygobject-2.12.3/gobject/pygflags.c	2007-04-19 21:30:33.000000000 -0400
+@@ -176,7 +176,9 @@
+     retval = PyDict_GetItem(values, pyint);
+     Py_DECREF(pyint);
+ 
+-    if (!retval) {
++    if (retval) {
++	Py_INCREF(retval);
++    } else {
+ 	PyErr_Clear();
+ 
+ 	retval = ((PyTypeObject *)pyclass)->tp_alloc((PyTypeObject *)pyclass, 0);
+@@ -186,7 +188,6 @@
+ 	((PyGFlags*)retval)->gtype = gtype;
+     } 
+ 
+-    Py_INCREF(retval);
+     return retval;
+ }
+ 
diff --git a/pygobject2.spec b/pygobject2.spec
index 86d267c..d3f03d7 100644
--- a/pygobject2.spec
+++ b/pygobject2.spec
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 Name: pygobject2
 Version: 2.12.3
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Release: 3%{?dist}
 License: LGPL
 Group: Development/Languages
 Summary: Python bindings for GObject
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ URL: http://www.pygtk.org/
 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
 Source: pygobject-%{version}.tar.bz2
 
+### Patches ###
+
+Patch1: pygobject-2.12.3-memory-leak.patch
+
 ### Dependencies ###
 
 Requires: glib2 >= 2.8
@@ -49,6 +53,7 @@ This package contains documentation files for pygobject2.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n pygobject-%{version}
+%patch1 -p1 -b .memory-leak
 
 %build
 # --disable-docs doesn't work; it builds the docs anyway.
@@ -92,6 +97,9 @@ rm -fr $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %{_datadir}/pygobject/xsl
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Apr 19 2007 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes@redhat.com> - 2.12.3-3.fc7
+- Add patch for RH bug #237179 (memory leak).
+
 * Thu Dec  7 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 2.12.3-2
 - rebuild against python 2.5