diff --git a/package/docker-containerd/docker-containerd.hash b/package/docker-containerd/docker-containerd.hash
index bb544e8d60..dc4f1f4913 100644
--- a/package/docker-containerd/docker-containerd.hash
+++ b/package/docker-containerd/docker-containerd.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Computed locally
-sha256  ac62c64664bf62fd44df0891c896eecdb6d93def3438271d7892dca75bc069d1  docker-containerd-1.4.4.tar.gz
-sha256	4bbe3b885e8cd1907ab4cf9a41e862e74e24b5422297a4f2fe524e6a30ada2b4  LICENSE
+sha256  3bb9f54be022067847f5930d21ebbfe4e7a67f589d78930aa0ac713492c28bcc  docker-containerd-1.4.9.tar.gz
+sha256  4bbe3b885e8cd1907ab4cf9a41e862e74e24b5422297a4f2fe524e6a30ada2b4  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/docker-containerd/docker-containerd.mk b/package/docker-containerd/docker-containerd.mk
index e229d9cb54..16026eb8e9 100644
--- a/package/docker-containerd/docker-containerd.mk
+++ b/package/docker-containerd/docker-containerd.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-DOCKER_CONTAINERD_VERSION = 1.4.4
+DOCKER_CONTAINERD_VERSION = 1.4.9
 DOCKER_CONTAINERD_SITE = $(call github,containerd,containerd,v$(DOCKER_CONTAINERD_VERSION))
 DOCKER_CONTAINERD_LICENSE = Apache-2.0
 DOCKER_CONTAINERD_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE