diff --git a/packages/file/build.sh b/packages/file/build.sh
index 4af00fd7a8..c36a91cf4e 100644
--- a/packages/file/build.sh
+++ b/packages/file/build.sh
@@ -2,10 +2,9 @@ TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://darwinsys.com/file/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Command-line tool that tells you in words what kind of data a file contains"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="BSD 2-Clause"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=5.41
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=5.42
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=13e532c7b364f7d57e23dfeea3147103150cb90593a57af86c10e4f6e411603f
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=c076fb4d029c74073f15c43361ef572cfb868407d347190ba834af3b1639b0e4
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="zlib"
 TERMUX_PKG_BREAKS="file-dev"
 TERMUX_PKG_REPLACES="file-dev"
diff --git a/packages/file/fix-paths.patch b/packages/file/fix-paths.patch
index 8ad7b12b99..7ec9fc18b0 100644
--- a/packages/file/fix-paths.patch
+++ b/packages/file/fix-paths.patch
@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
-diff -uNr file-5.35/src/compress.c file-5.35.mod/src/compress.c
---- file-5.35/src/compress.c	2018-10-15 19:29:16.000000000 +0300
-+++ file-5.35.mod/src/compress.c	2019-03-02 01:49:14.754069208 +0200
-@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@
- 	ssize_t r;
- 	int tfd;
- 
--	(void)strlcpy(buf, "/tmp/file.XXXXXX", sizeof buf);
+diff -uNr file-5.42/src/compress.c file-5.42.mod/src/compress.c
+--- file-5.42/src/compress.c	2022-04-11 19:15:07.000000000 +0100
++++ file-5.42.mod/src/compress.c	2022-07-22 17:17:00.944240000 +0100
+@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@
+ 		(void)strlcat(buf, "/", sizeof(buf));
+ 	(void)strlcat(buf, "file.XXXXXX", sizeof(buf));
+ #else
+-	(void)strlcpy(buf, "/tmp/file.XXXXXX", sizeof(buf));
 +	(void)strlcpy(buf, "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp/file.XXXXXX", sizeof buf);
+ #endif
  #ifndef HAVE_MKSTEMP
  	{
- 		char *ptr = mktemp(buf);
-diff -uNr file-5.35/src/file.h file-5.35.mod/src/file.h
---- file-5.35/src/file.h	2018-10-15 19:29:16.000000000 +0300
-+++ file-5.35.mod/src/file.h	2019-03-02 01:49:41.984157713 +0200
-@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
+diff -uNr file-5.42/src/file.h file-5.42.mod/src/file.h
+--- file-5.42/src/file.h	2022-05-28 21:24:09.000000000 +0100
++++ file-5.42.mod/src/file.h	2022-07-22 17:16:04.080017000 +0100
+@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
  #define ENABLE_CONDITIONALS
  
  #ifndef MAGIC