diff --git a/packages/gdbm/build.sh b/packages/gdbm/build.sh
index e83c12f87..2225a2742 100644
--- a/packages/gdbm/build.sh
+++ b/packages/gdbm/build.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://www.gnu.org.ua/software/gdbm/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Library of database functions that use extensible hashing"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.16
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=c8a18bc6259da0c3eefefb018f8aa298fddc6f86c6fc0f0dec73270896ab512f
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.17
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=7cd8cc2e35b1aaede6084ea57cc9447752f498daaea854100a4bad567614977d
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/gdbm/gdbm-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--without-readline"
diff --git a/packages/gdbm/src-gdbmsync.c.patch b/packages/gdbm/src-gdbmsync.c.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..511ab2b5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/gdbm/src-gdbmsync.c.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+http://git.gnu.org.ua/cgit/gdbm.git/commit/?id=1059526e357da1aa92e5c020332f4b39ceb37503
+
+diff --git a/src/gdbmsync.c b/src/gdbmsync.c
+index a8d1002..a75952b 100644
+--- a/src/gdbmsync.c
++++ b/src/gdbmsync.c
+@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ int
+ gdbm_sync (GDBM_FILE dbf)
+ {
+   /* Return immediately if the database needs recovery */	
+-  GDBM_ASSERT_CONSISTENCY (dbf, );
++  GDBM_ASSERT_CONSISTENCY (dbf, -1);
+ 
+   /* Initialize the gdbm_errno variable. */
+   gdbm_set_errno (dbf, GDBM_NO_ERROR, FALSE);
+