diff --git a/file-dell-bios.patch b/file-dell-bios.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..45633d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/file-dell-bios.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+diff --git a/magic/Magdir/msdos b/magic/Magdir/msdos
+index f8852cb..36bd51c 100644
+--- a/magic/Magdir/msdos
++++ b/magic/Magdir/msdos
+@@ -841,7 +841,12 @@
+ # Dell's .hdr
+ 0	string $RBU
+ >23	string Dell			%s system BIOS
+->48	string x			version %.3s
++>5	byte   2
++>>48	byte   x			version %d.
++>>49	byte   x			\b%d.
++>>50	byte   x			\b%d
++>5	byte   <2
++>>48	string x			version %.3s
+ 
+ # Type: Microsoft DirectDraw Surface
+ # URL:	http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/directx9_c/directx/graphics/reference/DDSFileReference/ddsfileformat.asp
diff --git a/file.spec b/file.spec
index b6258d7..8181b1d 100644
--- a/file.spec
+++ b/file.spec
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 Summary: A utility for determining file types
 Name: file
 Version: 5.07
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Release: 3%{?dist}
 License: BSD
 Group: Applications/File
 Source0: ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-%{version}.tar.gz
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Patch1: file-5.04-zip64.patch
 Patch2: file-5.05-rpm-archs.patch
 Patch3: file-5.0.7-zip.patch
 Patch4: file-5.0.7-dos.patch
+Patch5: file-dell-bios.patch
 
 Requires: file-libs = %{version}-%{release}
 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
@@ -73,6 +74,7 @@ file(1) command.
 %patch2 -p1
 %patch3 -p1
 %patch4 -p1
+%patch5 -p1
 
 iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 < doc/libmagic.man > doc/libmagic.man_
 touch -r doc/libmagic.man doc/libmagic.man_
@@ -152,6 +154,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Jun 09 2011 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> - 5.07-3
+- fix #709953 - add support for BIOS version detection
+
 * Mon May 23 2011 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> - 5.07-2
 - backported patches to fix 5.07 regressions
 - fix #706231 - fixed ZIP detection