diff --git a/hashmgr-add-word.patch b/hashmgr-add-word.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b464fd9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hashmgr-add-word.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Index: hunspell-1.3.2/src/hunspell/hashmgr.cxx
+===================================================================
+--- hunspell-1.3.2.orig/src/hunspell/hashmgr.cxx
++++ hunspell-1.3.2/src/hunspell/hashmgr.cxx
+@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ int HashMgr::add_word(const char * word,
+     int al, const char * desc, bool onlyupcase)
+ {
+     bool upcasehomonym = false;
+-    int descl = desc ? (aliasm ? sizeof(short) : strlen(desc) + 1) : 0;
++    int descl = desc ? (aliasm ? sizeof(char *) : strlen(desc) + 1) : 0;
+     // variable-length hash record with word and optional fields
+     struct hentry* hp = 
+ 	(struct hentry *) malloc (sizeof(struct hentry) + wbl + descl);
diff --git a/hunspell.changes b/hunspell.changes
index cd60f8a..e4f9819 100644
--- a/hunspell.changes
+++ b/hunspell.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Feb 21 20:50:48 UTC 2014 - schwab@linux-m68k.org
+
+- hashmgr-add-word.patch: fix allocation error in HashMgr::add_word (from
+  http://sourceforge.net/p/hunspell/patches/49/)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Mar 28 08:46:28 UTC 2013 - mmeister@suse.com
 
diff --git a/hunspell.spec b/hunspell.spec
index a3e5e07..5b08e39 100644
--- a/hunspell.spec
+++ b/hunspell.spec
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ Release:        0
 Url:            http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
 Source0:        http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/%{name}/Hunspell/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1:        baselibs.conf
+Patch0:         hashmgr-add-word.patch
 BuildRequires:  autoconf >= 2.59
 BuildRequires:  automake
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
@@ -73,6 +74,7 @@ Static hunspell library.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
+%patch0 -p1
 
 %build
 %configure \