diff --git a/package/libassuan/libassuan.hash b/package/libassuan/libassuan.hash
index c817a3af63..89e3fea956 100644
--- a/package/libassuan/libassuan.hash
+++ b/package/libassuan/libassuan.hash
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # From https://www.gnupg.org/download/integrity_check.html
-sha1  ec4f67c0117ccd17007c748a392ded96dc1b1ae9  libassuan-2.5.5.tar.bz2
+sha1  b1e8754dbf89b3a3eb175f5df75048dbca1fce57  libassuan-2.5.6.tar.bz2
+sha256  e9fd27218d5394904e4e39788f9b1742711c3e6b41689a31aa3380bd5aa4f426  libassuan-2.5.6.tar.bz2
 # Locally calculated after checking signature
-# https://www.gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/libassuan/libassuan-2.5.5.tar.bz2.sig
+# https://www.gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/libassuan/libassuan-2.5.6.tar.bz2.sig
 # using key D8692123C4065DEA5E0F3AB5249B39D24F25E3B6
-sha256  8e8c2fcc982f9ca67dcbb1d95e2dc746b1739a4668bc20b3a3c5be632edb34e4  libassuan-2.5.5.tar.bz2
 sha256  a9bdde5616ecdd1e980b44f360600ee8783b1f99b8cc83a2beb163a0a390e861  COPYING.LIB
 sha256  fc82ca8b6fdb18d4e3e85cfd8ab58d1bcd3f1b29abe782895abd91d64763f8e7  COPYING
diff --git a/package/libassuan/libassuan.mk b/package/libassuan/libassuan.mk
index 0f69d1ba6b..fb95a6fd67 100644
--- a/package/libassuan/libassuan.mk
+++ b/package/libassuan/libassuan.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBASSUAN_VERSION = 2.5.5
+LIBASSUAN_VERSION = 2.5.6
 LIBASSUAN_SITE = https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/libassuan
 LIBASSUAN_SOURCE = libassuan-$(LIBASSUAN_VERSION).tar.bz2
 LIBASSUAN_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1+ (library), GPL-3.0 (tests, doc)
@@ -15,4 +15,8 @@ LIBASSUAN_CONF_OPTS = \
 	--with-gpg-error-prefix=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr
 LIBASSUAN_CONFIG_SCRIPTS = libassuan-config
 
+# Force the path to "gpgrt-config" (from the libgpg-error package) to
+# avoid using the one on host, if present.
+LIBASSUAN_CONF_ENV += GPGRT_CONFIG=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr/bin/gpgrt-config
+
 $(eval $(autotools-package))