diff --git a/package/binutils/2.36/0001-sh-conf.patch b/package/binutils/2.36.1/0001-sh-conf.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from package/binutils/2.36/0001-sh-conf.patch
rename to package/binutils/2.36.1/0001-sh-conf.patch
diff --git a/package/binutils/2.36/0002-poison-system-directories.patch b/package/binutils/2.36.1/0002-poison-system-directories.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from package/binutils/2.36/0002-poison-system-directories.patch
rename to package/binutils/2.36.1/0002-poison-system-directories.patch
diff --git a/package/binutils/Config.in.host b/package/binutils/Config.in.host
index 8622ebf3f3..d6909617c7 100644
--- a/package/binutils/Config.in.host
+++ b/package/binutils/Config.in.host
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ config BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_35_X
 	depends on !BR2_BINFMT_FLAT
 
 config BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_36_X
-	bool "binutils 2.36"
+	bool "binutils 2.36.1"
 	depends on !BR2_csky
 	# https://github.com/uclinux-dev/elf2flt/pull/16
 	# https://github.com/uclinux-dev/elf2flt/issues/12
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ config BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION
 	default "2.32"		if BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_32_X
 	default "2.34"		if BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_34_X
 	default "2.35.2"	if BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_35_X
-	default "2.36"		if BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_36_X
+	default "2.36.1"	if BR2_BINUTILS_VERSION_2_36_X
 
 config BR2_BINUTILS_ENABLE_LTO
 	bool
diff --git a/package/binutils/binutils.hash b/package/binutils/binutils.hash
index 9d48581712..20462b3809 100644
--- a/package/binutils/binutils.hash
+++ b/package/binutils/binutils.hash
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 sha512  d326408f12a03d9a61a9de56584c2af12f81c2e50d2d7e835d51565df8314df01575724afa1e43bd0db45cfc9916b41519b67dfce03232aa4978704492a6994a  binutils-2.32.tar.xz
 sha512  2c7976939dcf5e8c5b7374cccd39bfe803b1bec73c6abfa0eb17c24e1942574c6bdb874c66a092a82adc443182eacd8a5a8001c19a76101f0c7ba40c27de0bbd  binutils-2.34.tar.xz
 sha512  9974ede5978d32e0d68fef23da48fa00bd06b0bff7ec45b00ca075c126d6bbe0cf2defc03ecc3f17bc6cc85b64271a13009c4049d7ba17de26e84e3a6e2c0348  binutils-2.35.2.tar.xz
-sha512  0b89b70d4ad5cfe5bd0011dc7e342ae9de96efdbfc3442a0d6b5f7660e38bbcad36f2c72ba8f074323f02bde022ff1cd723ae99f0ea55cf94ee2dbbc0e4efdb2  binutils-2.36.tar.xz
+sha512  cc24590bcead10b90763386b6f96bb027d7594c659c2d95174a6352e8b98465a50ec3e4088d0da038428abe059bbc4ae5f37b269f31a40fc048072c8a234f4e9  binutils-2.36.1.tar.xz
 
 # Locally calculated (fetched from Github)
 sha512  76a8227a19218435319c660e4983ea17985194b7f496f163e97543e7f6fd3e9249241fdc05a16ba512fba96a1d846c1f7b080983404d821d6215f10e7f11e238  binutils-gdb-arc-2020.09-release.tar.gz