diff --git a/package/asterisk/asterisk.hash b/package/asterisk/asterisk.hash
index 4cb4a42e19..26aa4b89b7 100644
--- a/package/asterisk/asterisk.hash
+++ b/package/asterisk/asterisk.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Locally computed
-sha256  9323f1fd41416d2d997015b2199d5507847e54da64c2e24923d75f5c283c5e83  asterisk-16.6.1.tar.gz
+sha256  474cbc6f9dddee94616f8af8e097bc4d340dc9698c4165dc45be6e0be80ff725  asterisk-16.6.2.tar.gz
 
 # sha1 from: http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/sounds/releases
 # sha256 locally computed
diff --git a/package/asterisk/asterisk.mk b/package/asterisk/asterisk.mk
index 6f94f628a4..00070aadba 100644
--- a/package/asterisk/asterisk.mk
+++ b/package/asterisk/asterisk.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-ASTERISK_VERSION = 16.6.1
+ASTERISK_VERSION = 16.6.2
 # Use the github mirror: it's an official mirror maintained by Digium, and
 # provides tarballs, which the main Asterisk git tree (behind Gerrit) does not.
 ASTERISK_SITE = $(call github,asterisk,asterisk,$(ASTERISK_VERSION))