diff --git a/SOURCES/0002-Fix-detection-of-executable-files.patch b/SOURCES/0002-Fix-detection-of-executable-files.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dae7196
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SOURCES/0002-Fix-detection-of-executable-files.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+diff -up shared-mime-info-1.9/freedesktop.org.xml.in.2 shared-mime-info-1.9/freedesktop.org.xml.in
+--- shared-mime-info-1.9/freedesktop.org.xml.in.2	2023-12-08 10:47:31.309147409 +0100
++++ shared-mime-info-1.9/freedesktop.org.xml.in	2023-12-08 10:47:34.293185260 +0100
+@@ -1919,14 +1919,10 @@ command to generate the output files.
+     <generic-icon name="application-x-executable"/>
+     <magic priority="40">
+       <match type="string" value="\177ELF" offset="0">
+-        <match type="byte" value="1" offset="5">
+-          <match type="little16" value="2" offset="16"/>
+-        </match>
++        <match type="byte" value="1" offset="5"/>
+       </match>
+       <match type="string" value="\177ELF" offset="0">
+-        <match type="byte" value="2" offset="5">
+-          <match type="big16" value="2" offset="16"/>
+-        </match>
++        <match type="byte" value="2" offset="5"/>
+       </match>
+       <match type="string" value="MZ" offset="0"/>
+       <match type="little16" value="0x521c" offset="0"/>
+@@ -3459,20 +3455,9 @@ command to generate the output files.
+   <mime-type type="application/x-sharedlib">
+     <_comment>shared library</_comment>
+     <magic priority="50">
+-      <match type="string" value="\177ELF" offset="0">
+-        <match type="byte" value="1" offset="5">
+-          <match type="little16" value="3" offset="16"/>
+-        </match>
+-      </match>
+-      <match type="string" value="\177ELF" offset="0">
+-        <match type="byte" value="2" offset="5">
+-          <match type="big16" value="3" offset="16"/>
+-        </match>
+-      </match>
+       <match type="little16" value="0603" offset="0">
+         <match type="little16" mask="030000" value="020000" offset="22"/>
+       </match>
+-      <match type="string" mask="0xffffffff000000000000000000000000ff" value="\177ELF            \003" offset="0"/>
+     </magic>
+     <glob pattern="*.so"/>
+   </mime-type>
diff --git a/SPECS/shared-mime-info.spec b/SPECS/shared-mime-info.spec
index 18b7a7f..f5cdf0b 100644
--- a/SPECS/shared-mime-info.spec
+++ b/SPECS/shared-mime-info.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary: Shared MIME information database
 Name: shared-mime-info
 Version: 1.9
-Release: 3%{?dist}
+Release: 4%{?dist}
 License: GPLv2+
 Group: System Environment/Base
 URL: http://freedesktop.org/Software/shared-mime-info
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ Source4: eog-defaults.list
 # Work-around for https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40354
 Patch0: 0001-Remove-sub-classing-from-OO.o-mime-types.patch
 
+# https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-5727
+Patch1: 0002-Fix-detection-of-executable-files.patch
+
 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 BuildRequires:  libxml2-devel
 BuildRequires:  glib2-devel
@@ -42,7 +45,7 @@ a file. This is generally done by examining the file's name or contents,
 and looking up the correct MIME type in a database.
 
 %prep
-%autosetup
+%autosetup -S gendiff
 
 %build
 %configure --disable-silent-rules --disable-update-mimedb
@@ -99,6 +102,9 @@ update-mime-database -n %{_datadir}/mime &> /dev/null ||:
 %{_mandir}/man*/*
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Dec 08 2023 Milan Crha <mcrha@redhat.com> - 1.9-4
+- Resolves: RHEL-5727 (Fix detection of executable files)
+
 * Fri Feb 09 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.9-3
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild