diff --git a/package/ethtool/ethtool.hash b/package/ethtool/ethtool.hash
index 5fde687ee2..53f31d0d5d 100644
--- a/package/ethtool/ethtool.hash
+++ b/package/ethtool/ethtool.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # From https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/sha256sums.asc
-sha256	904887acc7d2f9c35dec04eb0e8a727a3205f346af4f4c95560ea3798de5ecff	ethtool-4.0.tar.xz
+sha256	8cb854bcf71ef8b484b5d2a0e6bf056ae1fbf12cfb19e4907b74b7b21da91e87	ethtool-4.2.tar.xz
diff --git a/package/ethtool/ethtool.mk b/package/ethtool/ethtool.mk
index c358c6241b..c56eeb916c 100644
--- a/package/ethtool/ethtool.mk
+++ b/package/ethtool/ethtool.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-ETHTOOL_VERSION = 4.0
+ETHTOOL_VERSION = 4.2
 ETHTOOL_SOURCE = ethtool-$(ETHTOOL_VERSION).tar.xz
 ETHTOOL_SITE = $(BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR)/software/network/ethtool
 ETHTOOL_LICENSE = GPLv2