diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 078a6f90d..071586acd 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -450,9 +450,9 @@ checksum = "613afe47fcd5fac7ccf1db93babcb082c5994d996f20b8b159f2ad1658eb5724"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "chrono"
-version = "0.4.38"
+version = "0.4.39"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a21f936df1771bf62b77f047b726c4625ff2e8aa607c01ec06e5a05bd8463401"
+checksum = "7e36cc9d416881d2e24f9a963be5fb1cd90966419ac844274161d10488b3e825"
 dependencies = [
  "android-tzdata",
  "iana-time-zone",
@@ -1957,9 +1957,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "libc"
-version = "0.2.167"
+version = "0.2.168"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "09d6582e104315a817dff97f75133544b2e094ee22447d2acf4a74e189ba06fc"
+checksum = "5aaeb2981e0606ca11d79718f8bb01164f1d6ed75080182d3abf017e6d244b6d"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "libcgroups"
diff --git a/crates/libcgroups/Cargo.toml b/crates/libcgroups/Cargo.toml
index 2564369bc..fae074b68 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 = "1.5.0", optional = true }
 errno = { version = "0.3.10", optional = true }
-libc = { version = "0.2.167", optional = true }
+libc = { version = "0.2.168", optional = true }
 thiserror = "2.0.6"
 tracing = { version = "0.1.41", features = ["attributes"] }
 
diff --git a/crates/libcontainer/Cargo.toml b/crates/libcontainer/Cargo.toml
index 0f6c677d9..41a116ba5 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 = "^2.3.0"
-libc = "0.2.167"
+libc = "0.2.168"
 nix = { version = "0.28.0", features = [
     "socket",
     "sched",
diff --git a/tests/contest/runtimetest/Cargo.toml b/tests/contest/runtimetest/Cargo.toml
index cd0ceaebf..4c547f246 100644
--- a/tests/contest/runtimetest/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tests/contest/runtimetest/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@ edition = "2021"
 oci-spec = { version = "0.7.1", features = ["runtime"] }
 nix = "0.28.0"
 anyhow = "1.0"
-libc = "0.2.167" # TODO (YJDoc2) upgrade to latest
+libc = "0.2.168" # TODO (YJDoc2) upgrade to latest
 nc = "0.9.5"