diff --git a/package/socat/0003-compat-set-NETDB_INTERNAL.patch b/package/socat/0002-compat-set-NETDB_INTERNAL.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from package/socat/0003-compat-set-NETDB_INTERNAL.patch
rename to package/socat/0002-compat-set-NETDB_INTERNAL.patch
diff --git a/package/socat/0002-ptrdiff_t-is-defined-in-stddef.h.patch b/package/socat/0002-ptrdiff_t-is-defined-in-stddef.h.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index acae641b34..0000000000
--- a/package/socat/0002-ptrdiff_t-is-defined-in-stddef.h.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-From 99c55f2694fe8621ca2344eb002610dac7f9c969 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
-Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 09:34:24 -0300
-Subject: [PATCH] ptrdiff_t is defined in stddef.h
-
-Status: sent upstream via email.
-
-Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
----
- nestlex.c | 2 ++
- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
-
-diff --git a/nestlex.c b/nestlex.c
-index f7950f0..f49482d 100644
---- a/nestlex.c
-+++ b/nestlex.c
-@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
- 
- /* a function for lexical scanning of nested character patterns */
- 
-+#include <stddef.h>	/* ptrdiff_t */
-+
- #include "config.h"
- #include "mytypes.h"
- 
--- 
-2.4.10
-
diff --git a/package/socat/socat.hash b/package/socat/socat.hash
index 92d62ab716..e5b65925d1 100644
--- a/package/socat/socat.hash
+++ b/package/socat/socat.hash
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # From http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download.md5sum
-md5	b2a032a47b8b89a18485697fa975154f	socat-1.7.3.3.tar.bz2
+md5	3cca4f8cd9d2d1caabd9cc099451bac9	socat-1.7.3.4.tar.bz2
 # From http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download.sha256sum
-sha256	0dd63ffe498168a4aac41d307594c5076ff307aa0ac04b141f8f1cec6594d04a	socat-1.7.3.3.tar.bz2
+sha256	972374ca86f65498e23e3259c2ee1b8f9dbeb04d12c2a78c0c9b5d1cb97dfdfc	socat-1.7.3.4.tar.bz2
 # Locally calculated
 sha256	4846488cea98a2905dc75b7aa5eea721568e372447efe06b85bd896ee8c54f10	README
 sha256	8177f97513213526df2cf6184d8ff986c675afb514d4e68a404010521b880643	COPYING
diff --git a/package/socat/socat.mk b/package/socat/socat.mk
index 9e747e08fa..3807d45379 100644
--- a/package/socat/socat.mk
+++ b/package/socat/socat.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-SOCAT_VERSION = 1.7.3.3
+SOCAT_VERSION = 1.7.3.4
 SOCAT_SOURCE = socat-$(SOCAT_VERSION).tar.bz2
 SOCAT_SITE = http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download
 SOCAT_LICENSE = GPL-2.0 with OpenSSL exception