diff --git a/package/memcached/memcached.hash b/package/memcached/memcached.hash
index fc6ad5eb88..f241723111 100644
--- a/package/memcached/memcached.hash
+++ b/package/memcached/memcached.hash
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-# From http://www.memcached.org/files/memcached-1.6.40.tar.gz.sha1
-sha1  f2513db7079ee4c6558eb11fabb55e1adf1fdf38  memcached-1.6.40.tar.gz
+# From http://www.memcached.org/files/memcached-1.6.42.tar.gz.sha1
+sha1  de453f58745238c70091fe243549c406aabdc3c5  memcached-1.6.42.tar.gz
 
 # Locally computed
-sha256  a3d360e9da2221a49bf9aae4e6880f2d44da6b2a2fae39b1911b9ca76488fbfd  memcached-1.6.40.tar.gz
+sha256  50f08b879d4f9d36dea9d905e9eaade15c708e38db7e9a73fc21dc8b45395de7  memcached-1.6.42.tar.gz
 sha256  bc887c4ad8051fe690ace9528fe37a2e0bb362e6d963331d82e845ca9b585a0c  COPYING
diff --git a/package/memcached/memcached.mk b/package/memcached/memcached.mk
index d3ec9d36d7..a164e82a51 100644
--- a/package/memcached/memcached.mk
+++ b/package/memcached/memcached.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-MEMCACHED_VERSION = 1.6.40
+MEMCACHED_VERSION = 1.6.42
 MEMCACHED_SITE = http://www.memcached.org/files
 MEMCACHED_DEPENDENCIES = libevent
 MEMCACHED_CONF_ENV = ac_cv_prog_cc_c99='-std=gnu99'