diff --git a/Net-SSH2-auth_agent-workaround-bug-on-libssh2_agent_disconnec.patch b/Net-SSH2-auth_agent-workaround-bug-on-libssh2_agent_disconnec.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..09ac354
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Net-SSH2-auth_agent-workaround-bug-on-libssh2_agent_disconnec.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+From 54ae30a67b59cc6d411b7026897e58300a4b030d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Salvador=20Fandi=C3=B1o?= <sfandino@yahoo.com>
+Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 21:35:27 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH 1/6] auth_agent: workaround bug on libssh2_agent_disconnect
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+libssh2_agent_disconnect was being called twice, once directly and
+other under the hood by libssh2_agent_free. Unfortunatelly, due to a
+bug (reported!) on libssh2, that resulted in trying to close an
+already closed file descriptor.
+
+This patch removes the useless explicit call.
+
+Signed-off-by: Petr Šabata <contyk@redhat.com>
+---
+ SSH2.xs | 1 -
+ 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/SSH2.xs b/SSH2.xs
+index 2fc0ea2..28dab4a 100644
+--- a/SSH2.xs
++++ b/SSH2.xs
+@@ -1212,7 +1212,6 @@ CODE:
+                     }
+                 }
+             }
+-            libssh2_agent_disconnect(agent);
+         }
+         libssh2_agent_free(agent);
+     }
+-- 
+2.5.0
+
diff --git a/perl-Net-SSH2.spec b/perl-Net-SSH2.spec
index a426f6b..0f0b6cc 100644
--- a/perl-Net-SSH2.spec
+++ b/perl-Net-SSH2.spec
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 Name:           perl-Net-SSH2
 Version:        0.56
-Release:        1%{?dist}
+Release:        2%{?dist}
 Summary:        Support for the SSH 2 protocol via libSSH2
 License:        GPL+ or Artistic
 Group:          Development/Libraries
 URL:            http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-SSH2/
 Source0:        http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SA/SALVA/Net-SSH2-%{version}.tar.gz
+# gh@28, rhbz#1288774
+Patch0:         Net-SSH2-auth_agent-workaround-bug-on-libssh2_agent_disconnec.patch
 # Build
 BuildRequires:  findutils
 BuildRequires:  libgcrypt-devel
@@ -60,6 +62,7 @@ all of the key exchanges, ciphers, and compression of libssh2.
 %prep
 %setup -q -n Net-SSH2-%{version}
 perl -pi -e 's|^#!perl|#!%{__perl}|' example/*
+%patch0 -p1
 
 %build
 perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor OPTIMIZE="%{optflags}" NO_PACKLIST=1
@@ -82,6 +85,9 @@ make test
 %{_mandir}/man3/*
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Dec 07 2015 Petr Šabata <contyk@redhat.com> - 0.56-2
+- Work around a libssh2 agent bug (#1288774)
+
 * Mon Oct 12 2015 Jitka Plesnikova <jplesnik@redhat.com> - 0.56-1
 - 0.56 bump