diff --git a/libpcap/.footprint b/libpcap/.footprint
index d71cebd59..8aad7d1b0 100644
--- a/libpcap/.footprint
+++ b/libpcap/.footprint
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/include/pcap/
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/libpcap.a
 lrwxrwxrwx	root/root	usr/lib/libpcap.so -> libpcap.so.1
-lrwxrwxrwx	root/root	usr/lib/libpcap.so.1 -> libpcap.so.1.5.2
--rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/libpcap.so.1.5.2
+lrwxrwxrwx	root/root	usr/lib/libpcap.so.1 -> libpcap.so.1.5.3
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/libpcap.so.1.5.3
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/man/
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/man/man1/
 -rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/man/man1/pcap-config.1.gz
diff --git a/libpcap/.md5sum b/libpcap/.md5sum
index cfb5d8689..f9a9765e8 100644
--- a/libpcap/.md5sum
+++ b/libpcap/.md5sum
@@ -1 +1 @@
-33ba2f10f3a402cb5d34f5e2a904794a  libpcap-1.5.2.tar.gz
+7e7321fb3aff2f2bb05c8229f3795d4a  libpcap-1.5.3.tar.gz
diff --git a/libpcap/Pkgfile b/libpcap/Pkgfile
index 66f921c7f..0f042071e 100644
--- a/libpcap/Pkgfile
+++ b/libpcap/Pkgfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Depends on:  udev libusb
 
 name=libpcap
-version=1.5.2
+version=1.5.3
 release=1
 source=(http://www.tcpdump.org/release/$name-$version.tar.gz)