diff --git a/main/c-ares/APKBUILD b/main/c-ares/APKBUILD
index 8b0d659a638c1d578e2ff6b90aa00f40bae88885..5977622f51ea6d18c85b979f056879455af3796b 100644
--- a/main/c-ares/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/c-ares/APKBUILD
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Contributor: Carlo Landmeter <clandmeter@alpinelinux.org>
 # Maintainer: Carlo Landmeter <clandmeter@alpinelinux.org>
 pkgname=c-ares
-pkgver=1.17.1
-pkgrel=1
+pkgver=1.17.2
+pkgrel=0
 pkgdesc="An asynchronously DNS/names resolver library"
 url="https://c-ares.haxx.se/"
 arch="all"
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ license="MIT"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc $pkgname-static $pkgname-dev"
 source="https://c-ares.haxx.se/download/c-ares-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 
+# secfixes:
+#   1.17.2-r0:
+#     - CVE-2021-3672
+
 build() {
 	./configure \
 		--build=$CBUILD \
@@ -36,4 +40,6 @@ package() {
 	make -j1 DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
 }
 
-sha512sums="b11887bcc9274d368088e1a8b6aca62414f20675cf0bc58e948f54fa04c327c39dd23cefe7509eec6397db14b550a3f6b77f5c18b3d735b3eef48ce2da1dcd00  c-ares-1.17.1.tar.gz"
+sha512sums="
+f625e0ef8508af6475d3e83b51ab29be8a4878e2a87e7f518bea046b76a74bfde7043ca6ec2a9e714c898ab9e5d4a5a678c3347a9f9eb68980438f7ca8ae3fc8  c-ares-1.17.2.tar.gz
+"