diff --git a/package/sysklogd/sysklogd.hash b/package/sysklogd/sysklogd.hash
index 16a8bb4609..bac35ebcc1 100644
--- a/package/sysklogd/sysklogd.hash
+++ b/package/sysklogd/sysklogd.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Upstream .sha256 from GitHub
-sha256  1d9ed88a772af95c8b46c9e92ddc5bf4a76ac233ec5850f084290b80df7e02c4  sysklogd-2.4.0.tar.gz
+sha256  64acdb6ade609a1f42eeb7fbdb25c539b1c16abf2f6ff722606773b84a3c4073  sysklogd-2.4.2.tar.gz
 
 # Locally calculated
 sha256  7a71d7603a7c4456df441463e54da35acf151c1be0879246de63544f1f34f477  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/sysklogd/sysklogd.mk b/package/sysklogd/sysklogd.mk
index 9e5932f8fa..b25937df31 100644
--- a/package/sysklogd/sysklogd.mk
+++ b/package/sysklogd/sysklogd.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-SYSKLOGD_VERSION = 2.4.0
+SYSKLOGD_VERSION = 2.4.2
 SYSKLOGD_SITE = https://github.com/troglobit/sysklogd/releases/download/v$(SYSKLOGD_VERSION)
 SYSKLOGD_LICENSE = BSD-3-Clause
 SYSKLOGD_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE