diff --git a/package/libpng/libpng.hash b/package/libpng/libpng.hash
index fc4aeba85a..1e57e1dc33 100644
--- a/package/libpng/libpng.hash
+++ b/package/libpng/libpng.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-# From https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng16/1.6.51/
-sha1  8fd6ff93769fac269ab9197c106d4e0808521b04  libpng-1.6.51.tar.xz
+# From https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng16/1.6.53/
+sha1  90672f16e545e4931abd50d372edef50596a1d46  libpng-1.6.53.tar.xz
 # Locally computed:
-sha256  a050a892d3b4a7bb010c3a95c7301e49656d72a64f1fc709a90b8aded192bed2  libpng-1.6.51.tar.xz
+sha256  1d3fb8ccc2932d04aa3663e22ef5ef490244370f4e568d7850165068778d98d4  libpng-1.6.53.tar.xz
 sha256  16d9daaafbf63a31a5bdc91d4600972548fef5aaa1244202393288dbd079c49a  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/libpng/libpng.mk b/package/libpng/libpng.mk
index e78115146b..7b66f17bbf 100644
--- a/package/libpng/libpng.mk
+++ b/package/libpng/libpng.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LIBPNG_VERSION = 1.6.51
+LIBPNG_VERSION = 1.6.53
 LIBPNG_SERIES = 16
 LIBPNG_SOURCE = libpng-$(LIBPNG_VERSION).tar.xz
 LIBPNG_SITE = https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libpng/libpng$(LIBPNG_SERIES)/$(LIBPNG_VERSION)