diff --git a/0001-unixODBC-changed-soname-to-.2-so-reflect-it.patch b/0001-unixODBC-changed-soname-to-.2-so-reflect-it.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c004ad0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-unixODBC-changed-soname-to-.2-so-reflect-it.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+From 18f068baca7630afdc8d02a4e21a4aa1a9d70f86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Tom=C3=A1=C5=A1=20Chv=C3=A1tal?= <tchvatal@suse.com>
+Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 16:06:10 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] unixODBC changed soname to .2 so reflect it
+
+we dlopen this library and thus we should be able to find it with any
+soname, so far .1 and .2 seem to be used.
+
+Change-Id: Idcd284fada1acdfe8dde46c3056c21b792777280
+---
+ dbaccess/source/ui/dlg/odbcconfig.cxx | 5 +++++
+ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/dbaccess/source/ui/dlg/odbcconfig.cxx b/dbaccess/source/ui/dlg/odbcconfig.cxx
+index cd1b583e1840..163fc8549d06 100644
+--- a/dbaccess/source/ui/dlg/odbcconfig.cxx
++++ b/dbaccess/source/ui/dlg/odbcconfig.cxx
+@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
+ #ifdef MACOSX
+ #define ODBC_LIBRARY        "libiodbc.dylib"
+ #else
++#define ODBC_LIBRARY_2      "libodbc.so.2"
+ #define ODBC_LIBRARY_1      "libodbc.so.1"
+ #define ODBC_LIBRARY        "libodbc.so"
+ #endif
+@@ -124,6 +125,10 @@ OOdbcEnumeration::OOdbcEnumeration()
+     if ( !bLoaded )
+         bLoaded = load(ODBC_LIBRARY_1);
+ #endif
++#ifdef ODBC_LIBRARY_2
++    if ( !bLoaded )
++        bLoaded = load(ODBC_LIBRARY_2);
++#endif
+ 
+     if ( bLoaded )
+     {
+-- 
+2.11.0
+
diff --git a/libreoffice.changes b/libreoffice.changes
index 9908773..422a141 100644
--- a/libreoffice.changes
+++ b/libreoffice.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Jan  5 15:08:29 UTC 2017 - tchvatal@suse.com
+
+- Fix unixODBC loading bnc#1017925
+  * 0001-unixODBC-changed-soname-to-.2-so-reflect-it.patch
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jan  4 20:11:44 UTC 2017 - tchvatal@suse.com
 
diff --git a/libreoffice.spec b/libreoffice.spec
index eeb66f4..f6eed51 100644
--- a/libreoffice.spec
+++ b/libreoffice.spec
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ Patch3:         system-pyuno.diff
 # FIXME: the right fix is to compile the help and produce the .db_, .ht_, and other files
 Patch4:         nlpsolver-no-broken-help.diff
 Patch5:         mediawiki-no-broken-help.diff
+Patch6:         0001-unixODBC-changed-soname-to-.2-so-reflect-it.patch
 # PATCH-HOTFIX-UPSTREAM: disable test that rounds wrongly on most archs
 Patch16:        libreoffice-hotfix-disablebrokenshapetest.patch
 # try to save space by using hardlinks
@@ -938,6 +939,7 @@ Provides additional %{langname} translations and resources for %{project}. \
 %patch3 -p1
 %patch4
 %patch5
+%patch6 -p1
 %patch16 -p1
 %patch990 -p1