diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/valgrind/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/valgrind/default.nix
index 5638e810edf..6b35cbc4e68 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/valgrind/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/valgrind/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, perl, gdb, autoconf, automake }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "valgrind-3.6.0";
+  name = "valgrind-3.6.1";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://valgrind.org/downloads/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "0pr8h0q909z15g2i2jrcryhqbshair42rylf3mprhyx4nm9h23xw";
+    sha256 = "03kaf8q49r347diryc2p1q5hxsd6hyhxikqdbydh8q7hpi7wrga9";
   };
 
   # Perl is needed for `cg_annotate'.