diff --git a/salt.changes b/salt.changes
index e4c5a33..e46854c 100644
--- a/salt.changes
+++ b/salt.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Dec  1 15:33:01 UTC 2017 - mihai.dinca@suse.com
+
+- Fix wrong version reported by Salt (bsc#1061407)
+- Fix CVE-2017-14696 (bsc#1062464) already included in 2017.7.2
+ 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Nov 27 17:13:03 UTC 2017 - mihai.dinca@suse.com
 
diff --git a/salt.spec b/salt.spec
index 0742ba1..009ef03 100644
--- a/salt.spec
+++ b/salt.spec
@@ -408,7 +408,8 @@ cp %{S:6} ./zyppnotify
 %patch8 -p1
 
 %build
-%{__python3} setup.py --salt-transport=both build
+%{__python3} setup.py --with-salt-version=%{version} --salt-transport=both build
+cp ./build/lib/salt/_version.py ./salt
 
 %if %{with docs} && %{without builddocs}
 # extract docs from the tarball