diff --git a/mod_security-fix-build-with-libxml29.patch b/mod_security-fix-build-with-libxml29.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f857e46
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mod_security-fix-build-with-libxml29.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+--- apache2/msc_crypt.c.orig	2012-10-18 10:42:43.381000000 +0100
++++ apache2/msc_crypt.c	2012-10-18 10:46:52.442000000 +0100
+@@ -1079,6 +1079,70 @@
+ 
+     htmlDocContentDumpFormatOutput(output_buf, msr->crypto_html_tree, NULL, 0);
+ 
++#ifdef  LIBXML2_NEW_BUFFER
++
++    if (output_buf->conv == NULL || (output_buf->conv && xmlOutputBufferGetSize(output_buf) == 0)) {
++
++        if(output_buf->buffer == NULL || xmlOutputBufferGetSize(output_buf) == 0)  {
++            xmlOutputBufferClose(output_buf);
++            xmlFreeDoc(msr->crypto_html_tree);
++            msr->of_stream_changed = 0;
++            return -1;
++        }
++
++        if(msr->stream_output_data != NULL) {
++            free(msr->stream_output_data);
++            msr->stream_output_data =  NULL;
++        }
++
++        msr->stream_output_length = xmlOutputBufferGetSize(output_buf);
++        msr->stream_output_data = (char *)malloc(msr->stream_output_length+1);
++
++        if (msr->stream_output_data == NULL) {
++            xmlOutputBufferClose(output_buf);
++            xmlFreeDoc(msr->crypto_html_tree);
++            return -1;
++        }
++
++        memset(msr->stream_output_data, 0x0, msr->stream_output_length+1);
++        memcpy(msr->stream_output_data, xmlOutputBufferGetContent(output_buf), msr->stream_output_length);
++
++        if (msr->txcfg->debuglog_level >= 4)
++            msr_log(msr, 4, "inject_encrypted_response_body: Copying XML tree from CONTENT to stream buffer [%d] bytes.", xmlOutputBufferGetSize(output_buf));
++
++    } else {
++
++        if(output_buf->conv == NULL || xmlOutputBufferGetSize(output_buf) == 0)  {
++            xmlOutputBufferClose(output_buf);
++            xmlFreeDoc(msr->crypto_html_tree);
++            msr->of_stream_changed = 0;
++            return -1;
++        }
++
++        if(msr->stream_output_data != NULL) {
++            free(msr->stream_output_data);
++            msr->stream_output_data =  NULL;
++        }
++
++        msr->stream_output_length = xmlOutputBufferGetSize(output_buf);
++        msr->stream_output_data = (char *)malloc(msr->stream_output_length+1);
++
++        if (msr->stream_output_data == NULL) {
++            xmlOutputBufferClose(output_buf);
++            xmlFreeDoc(msr->crypto_html_tree);
++            return -1;
++        }
++
++        memset(msr->stream_output_data, 0x0, msr->stream_output_length+1);
++        memcpy(msr->stream_output_data, xmlOutputBufferGetContent(output_buf), msr->stream_output_length);
++
++        if (msr->txcfg->debuglog_level >= 4)
++            msr_log(msr, 4, "inject_encrypted_response_body: Copying XML tree from CONV to stream buffer [%d] bytes.", xmlOutputBufferGetSize(output_buf));
++
++    }
++
++#else
++
+     if (output_buf->conv == NULL || (output_buf->conv && output_buf->conv->use == 0)) {
+ 
+         if(output_buf->buffer == NULL || output_buf->buffer->use == 0)  {
+@@ -1139,6 +1203,8 @@
+ 
+     }
+ 
++#endif
++
+     xmlOutputBufferClose(output_buf);
+ 
+     content_value = (char*)apr_psprintf(msr->mp, "%"APR_SIZE_T_FMT, msr->stream_output_length);
diff --git a/mod_security.spec b/mod_security.spec
index c0573c2..2173ad0 100644
--- a/mod_security.spec
+++ b/mod_security.spec
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 Summary: Security module for the Apache HTTP Server
 Name: mod_security 
 Version: 2.7.0
-Release: 1%{?dist}
+Release: 2%{?dist}
 License: ASL 2.0
 URL: http://www.modsecurity.org/
 Group: System Environment/Daemons
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ Source1: mod_security.conf
 Requires: httpd httpd-mmn = %{_httpd_mmn}
 BuildRequires: httpd-devel libxml2-devel pcre-devel curl-devel lua-devel
 
+# Reported to upstream
+Patch0: mod_security-fix-build-with-libxml29.patch
+
 %description
 ModSecurity is an open source intrusion detection and prevention engine
 for web applications. It operates embedded into the web server, acting
@@ -32,6 +35,7 @@ This package contains the ModSecurity Audit Log Collector.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n modsecurity-apache_%{version}
+%patch0 -p0
 
 %build
 %configure --enable-pcre-match-limit=1000000 \
@@ -97,6 +101,9 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}
 %attr(0755,root,root) %{_bindir}/mlogc-batch-load
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Oct 18 2012 Athmane Madjoudj <athmane@fedoraproject.org> 2.7.0-2
+- Add a patch to fix failed build against libxml2 >= 2.9.0
+
 * Wed Oct 17 2012 Athmane Madjoudj <athmane@fedoraproject.org> 2.7.0-1
 - Update to 2.7.0