diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
index f778cff0f4..cebfd3c48c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ DEPENDS += "kern-tools-native virtual/crypt"
 
 # bzip2 applet in busybox is based on lightly-modified bzip2-1.0.4 source
 # the GPL is version 2 only
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & bzip2-1.0.4"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & bzip2-1.0.6"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=de10de48642ab74318e893a61105afbb \
                     file://archival/libarchive/bz/LICENSE;md5=28e3301eae987e8cfe19988e98383dae"