diff --git a/pkgs/tools/compression/xz/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/compression/xz/default.nix
index da3a537da28..37c0c6d1c7e 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/compression/xz/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/compression/xz/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "xz-5.2.3";
+  name = "xz-5.2.4";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://tukaani.org/xz/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "1ha08wxcldgcl81021x5nhknr47s1p95ljfkka4sqah5w5ns377x";
+    sha256 = "1gxpayfagb4v7xfhs2w6h7k56c6hwwav1rk48bj8hggljlmgs4rk";
   };
 
   outputs = [ "bin" "dev" "out" "man" "doc" ];