diff --git a/package/earlyoom/earlyoom.hash b/package/earlyoom/earlyoom.hash
index b0095cb8ec..ab91383ee4 100644
--- a/package/earlyoom/earlyoom.hash
+++ b/package/earlyoom/earlyoom.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # locally calculated
-sha256  b81804fc4470f996014d52252a87a1cf3b43d3d8754140035b10dcee349302b8  earlyoom-1.6.tar.gz
+sha256  227234cf9e77831c21c748bd361e1a7c415e158b96034eacd59e70586779bb6c  earlyoom-1.6.2.tar.gz
 # License files, locally calculated
 sha256  e730b3ec729de46d987ae73f30ed337e4cbe832f09205330acfa71848c6e0087  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/earlyoom/earlyoom.mk b/package/earlyoom/earlyoom.mk
index 066a479bd1..d1cf9d4de1 100644
--- a/package/earlyoom/earlyoom.mk
+++ b/package/earlyoom/earlyoom.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-EARLYOOM_VERSION = 1.6
+EARLYOOM_VERSION = 1.6.2
 EARLYOOM_SITE = $(call github,rfjakob,earlyoom,v$(EARLYOOM_VERSION))
 EARLYOOM_LICENSE = MIT
 EARLYOOM_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE