diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libtiff/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libtiff/default.nix
index e44c4e41609..a6219619a26 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libtiff/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libtiff/default.nix
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
 assert zlib != null && libjpeg != null;
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "libtiff-3.7.1";
+  name = "libtiff-3.7.2";
   builder = ./builder.sh;
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/tiff-3.7.1.tar.gz;
-    md5 = "37d222df12eb23691614cd40b7b1f215";
+    url = ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/tiff-3.7.2.tar.gz;
+    md5 = "9d7123bd0dbde2a3853fb758346adb78";
   };
   propagatedBuildInputs = [zlib libjpeg];
   inherit zlib libjpeg;