diff --git a/vtk-5.4.2-string-len.patch b/vtk-5.4.2-string-len.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2ea92c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vtk-5.4.2-string-len.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -uNr VTK-orig/Utilities/kwsys/SystemInformation.cxx VTK/Utilities/kwsys/SystemInformation.cxx
+--- VTK-ori/Utilities/kwsys/SystemInformation.cxx	2009-02-12 16:08:15.000000000 +0100
++++ VTK/Utilities/kwsys/SystemInformation.cxx	2010-03-25 11:34:27.197122890 +0100
+@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
+   void RunMemoryCheck();
+ public:
+ #define VENDOR_STRING_LENGTH    (12 + 1)
+-#define CHIPNAME_STRING_LENGTH    (48 + 1)
++#define CHIPNAME_STRING_LENGTH    (61 + 1)
+ #define SERIALNUMBER_STRING_LENGTH  (29 + 1)
+ 
+   typedef struct tagID 
diff --git a/vtk.changes b/vtk.changes
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8f6f90d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vtk.changes
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Mar 25 11:50:35 CET 2010 - boris@steki.net
+
+- Extended buffer size in VTK/Utilities/kwsys/SystemInformation.cxx
+  to fix buffer overflow report from rpmlint
+
+
+
diff --git a/vtk.spec b/vtk.spec
index f98b45a..4757bd3 100644
--- a/vtk.spec
+++ b/vtk.spec
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Group:		System/Libraries
 URL:		http://www.vtk.org
 Source0:	vtk-%{version}.tar.gz
 Patch0:         vtk-5.4.2-pythondestdir.patch
+Patch1:		vtk-5.4.2-string-len.patch
 Buildroot:	%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root
 
 BuildRequires:	cmake tcl-devel tk-devel libqt4-devel python-devel
@@ -90,6 +91,7 @@ Testing programs for VTK
 %prep
 %setup -n VTK -q
 %patch0 -p1
+%patch1 -p1
 
 # Replace relative path ../../../VTKData with %{_datadir}/vtkdata
 # otherwise it will break on symlinks.