diff --git a/file-5.04-string-size.patch b/file-5.04-string-size.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..79fe2df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/file-5.04-string-size.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+diff --git a/src/file.h b/src/file.h
+index c07f2d4..7086092 100644
+--- a/src/file.h
++++ b/src/file.h
+@@ -104,11 +104,11 @@
+ #define MAXMAGIS 8192		/* max entries in any one magic file
+ 				   or directory */
+ #define MAXDESC	64		/* max leng of text description/MIME type */
+-#define MAXstring 32		/* max leng of "string" types */
++#define MAXstring 64		/* max leng of "string" types */
+ 
+ #define MAGICNO		0xF11E041C
+-#define VERSIONNO	7
+-#define FILE_MAGICSIZE	200
++#define VERSIONNO	8
++#define FILE_MAGICSIZE	232
+ 
+ #define	FILE_LOAD	0
+ #define FILE_CHECK	1
diff --git a/file.spec b/file.spec
index 1908822..0022192 100644
--- a/file.spec
+++ b/file.spec
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 Summary: A utility for determining file types
 Name: file
 Version: 5.04
-Release: 16%{?dist}
+Release: 17%{?dist}
 License: BSD
 Group: Applications/File
 Source0: ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-%{version}.tar.gz
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Patch12: file-5.04-core-prpsinfo.patch
 Patch13: file-5.04-python-2.7.patch
 Patch14: file-5.04-webm.patch
 Patch15: file-5.04-zip64.patch
+Patch16: file-5.04-string-size.patch
 
 Requires: file-libs = %{version}-%{release}
 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
@@ -108,6 +109,8 @@ file(1) command.
 %patch14 -p1
 #fixes #637785
 %patch15 -p1
+#fixes #656395
+%patch16 -p1
 
 iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 < doc/libmagic.man > doc/libmagic.man_
 touch -r doc/libmagic.man doc/libmagic.man_
@@ -185,6 +188,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Nov 24 2010 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> - 5.04-17
+- fix #656395 - "string" magic directive supports longer strings
+
 * Wed Aug 29 2010 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> - 5.04-16
 - fix #637785 - support for zip64 format