To apply the patch in comment #3 do:

wget  http://launchpadlibrarian.net/40378845/magic.patch
sudo patch -p1 /usr/share/file/magic magic.patch
cd /usr/share/file
sudo file -C
cd ~

Testing:
file -bi xubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso 
application/x-iso9660-image; charset=binary

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File report iso image application/octet-stream
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458677
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