diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d6b6170..70e2bc6 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SOURCES/lxml-4.6.3.tar.gz
+SOURCES/lxml-4.6.5.tar.gz
diff --git a/.python-lxml.metadata b/.python-lxml.metadata
index b35ee12..fcf7f24 100644
--- a/.python-lxml.metadata
+++ b/.python-lxml.metadata
@@ -1 +1 @@
-a14e8b1cb38f3ed425e2d9b22950ce64c63500ef SOURCES/lxml-4.6.3.tar.gz
+04a3ed4d33a511b5796880461b0edb6f3b144547 SOURCES/lxml-4.6.5.tar.gz
diff --git a/SOURCES/852ed1092b.patch b/SOURCES/852ed1092b.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 26778f6..0000000
--- a/SOURCES/852ed1092b.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-From 852ed1092bd80b6b9a51db24371047ec88843031 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de>
-Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 22:02:02 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] Adapt a test to a behavioural change in libxml2 2.9.11+.
-
----
- src/lxml/tests/test_etree.py | 5 ++++-
- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/src/lxml/tests/test_etree.py b/src/lxml/tests/test_etree.py
-index 9cf70604b..42613dcbe 100644
---- a/src/lxml/tests/test_etree.py
-+++ b/src/lxml/tests/test_etree.py
-@@ -3036,7 +3036,10 @@ def test_subelement_nsmap(self):
-     def test_html_prefix_nsmap(self):
-         etree = self.etree
-         el = etree.HTML('<hha:page-description>aa</hha:page-description>').find('.//page-description')
--        self.assertEqual({'hha': None}, el.nsmap)
-+        if etree.LIBXML_VERSION < (2, 9, 11):
-+            self.assertEqual({'hha': None}, el.nsmap)
-+        else:
-+            self.assertEqual({}, el.nsmap)
- 
-     def test_getchildren(self):
-         Element = self.etree.Element
diff --git a/SPECS/python-lxml.spec b/SPECS/python-lxml.spec
index 82e111a..5557151 100644
--- a/SPECS/python-lxml.spec
+++ b/SPECS/python-lxml.spec
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 %global modname lxml
 
 Name:           python-%{modname}
-Version:        4.6.3
-Release:        5%{?dist}
+Version:        4.6.5
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API
 
 # The lxml project is licensed under BSD
@@ -13,9 +13,6 @@ License:        BSD and MIT and zlib
 URL:            https://github.com/lxml/lxml
 Source0:        %{pypi_source %{modname}}
 
-# Adapt a test to a behavioural change in libxml2 2.9.11+
-Patch1:         %{url}/commit/852ed1092b.patch
-
 BuildRequires:  gcc
 BuildRequires:  libxml2-devel
 BuildRequires:  libxslt-devel
@@ -68,6 +65,11 @@ cp -a build/lib.%{python3_platform}-%{python3_version}/* src/
 %{python3_sitearch}/%{modname}-*.egg-info/
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Jan 06 2022 Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak@redhat.com> - 4.6.5-1
+- Update to 4.6.5
+- Fixes CVE-2021-43818
+- Resolves: rhbz#2032569
+
 * Fri Nov 26 2021 Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@redhat.com> - 4.6.3-5
 - Run the tests during build
 - Resolves: rhbz#2026941