diff --git a/package/tcpdump/tcpdump.hash b/package/tcpdump/tcpdump.hash
index 997cd424e6..21fb83f418 100644
--- a/package/tcpdump/tcpdump.hash
+++ b/package/tcpdump/tcpdump.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-sha256 177385d9d17d1d99ba6aa3ea63a8400a5f4c54db62b83ac6d4da56944bee623b  tcpdump-4.8.0.tar.gz
+sha256 20e4341ec48fcf72abcae312ea913e6ba6b958617b2f3fb496d51f0ae88d831c  tcpdump-4.8.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/tcpdump/tcpdump.mk b/package/tcpdump/tcpdump.mk
index 559b816a6e..3773fcb9c0 100644
--- a/package/tcpdump/tcpdump.mk
+++ b/package/tcpdump/tcpdump.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-TCPDUMP_VERSION = 4.8.0
+TCPDUMP_VERSION = 4.8.1
 TCPDUMP_SITE = http://www.tcpdump.org/release
 TCPDUMP_LICENSE = BSD-3c
 TCPDUMP_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE