diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 1d06af75..58477ab5 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1979,9 +1979,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "libc"
-version = "0.2.159"
+version = "0.2.161"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "561d97a539a36e26a9a5fad1ea11a3039a67714694aaa379433e580854bc3dc5"
+checksum = "8e9489c2807c139ffd9c1794f4af0ebe86a828db53ecdc7fea2111d0fed085d1"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "libcgroups"
@@ -3508,9 +3508,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "serde_json"
-version = "1.0.128"
+version = "1.0.129"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6ff5456707a1de34e7e37f2a6fd3d3f808c318259cbd01ab6377795054b483d8"
+checksum = "6dbcf9b78a125ee667ae19388837dd12294b858d101fdd393cb9d5501ef09eb2"
 dependencies = [
  "itoa",
  "memchr",
diff --git a/crates/libcgroups/Cargo.toml b/crates/libcgroups/Cargo.toml
index 19417b2f..e316afe8 100644
--- a/crates/libcgroups/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/libcgroups/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 rbpf = { version = "0.3.0", optional = true }
 libbpf-sys = { version = "1.4.5", optional = true }
 errno = { version = "0.3.9", optional = true }
-libc = { version = "0.2.159", optional = true }
+libc = { version = "0.2.161", optional = true }
 thiserror = "1.0.64"
 tracing = { version = "0.1.40", features = ["attributes"] }
 
diff --git a/crates/libcontainer/Cargo.toml b/crates/libcontainer/Cargo.toml
index 9126da0e..dd8e765b 100644
--- a/crates/libcontainer/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/libcontainer/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ chrono = { version = "0.4", default-features = false, features = [
     "serde",
 ] }
 fastrand = "^2.1.1"
-libc = "0.2.159"
+libc = "0.2.161"
 nix = { version = "0.28.0", features = [
     "socket",
     "sched",
diff --git a/tests/contest/runtimetest/Cargo.toml b/tests/contest/runtimetest/Cargo.toml
index 9955358f..6c1ab0cd 100644
--- a/tests/contest/runtimetest/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tests/contest/runtimetest/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@ edition = "2021"
 oci-spec = { version = "0.7.0", features = ["runtime"] }
 nix = "0.28.0"
 anyhow = "1.0"
-libc = "0.2.159" # TODO (YJDoc2) upgrade to latest
+libc = "0.2.161" # TODO (YJDoc2) upgrade to latest
 nc = "0.9.4"