diff --git a/pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/default.nix
index b2b238997b9d..4161df6ae8b9 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/default.nix
@@ -848,11 +848,11 @@ let
   }) // {inherit fixesproto libX11 xextproto xproto ;};
 
   libXfont = (mkDerivation "libXfont" {
-    name = "libXfont-1.5.2";
+    name = "libXfont-1.5.3";
     builder = ./builder.sh;
     src = fetchurl {
-      url = mirror://xorg/individual/lib/libXfont-1.5.2.tar.bz2;
-      sha256 = "0w8d07bkmjiarkx09579bl8zsq903mn8javc7qpi0ix4ink5x502";
+      url = mirror://xorg/individual/lib/libXfont-1.5.3.tar.bz2;
+      sha256 = "1l4k3i3xzqdmaszykh6bb2ah78p6c3z7fak7xzgq2d38s87w31db";
     };
     nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
     buildInputs = [ libfontenc fontsproto freetype xproto xtrans zlib ];
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/tarballs-7.7.list b/pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/tarballs-7.7.list
index 42cee12843c2..526785ae8fba 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/tarballs-7.7.list
+++ b/pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/tarballs-7.7.list
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ mirror://xorg/individual/lib/libXdamage-1.1.4.tar.bz2
 mirror://xorg/individual/lib/libXdmcp-1.1.2.tar.bz2
 mirror://xorg/individual/lib/libXext-1.3.3.tar.bz2
 mirror://xorg/individual/lib/libXfixes-5.0.2.tar.bz2
-mirror://xorg/individual/lib/libXfont-1.5.2.tar.bz2
+mirror://xorg/individual/lib/libXfont-1.5.3.tar.bz2
 mirror://xorg/individual/lib/libXfont2-2.0.2.tar.bz2
 mirror://xorg/individual/lib/libXft-2.3.2.tar.bz2
 mirror://xorg/individual/lib/libXi-1.7.9.tar.bz2