diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 5e64cdaf9d..97a7890827 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module github.com/containers/buildah
 go 1.20
 
 require (
-	github.com/containerd/containerd v1.7.8
+	github.com/containerd/containerd v1.7.9
 	github.com/containernetworking/cni v1.1.2
 	github.com/containernetworking/plugins v1.3.0
 	github.com/containers/common v0.56.1-0.20231101154632-8354404a5688
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index e09c48e848..4f703f61fa 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ github.com/client9/misspell v0.3.4/go.mod h1:qj6jICC3Q7zFZvVWo7KLAzC3yx5G7kyvSDk
 github.com/cncf/udpa/go v0.0.0-20191209042840-269d4d468f6f/go.mod h1:M8M6+tZqaGXZJjfX53e64911xZQV5JYwmTeXPW+k8Sc=
 github.com/containerd/cgroups/v3 v3.0.2 h1:f5WFqIVSgo5IZmtTT3qVBo6TzI1ON6sycSBKkymb9L0=
 github.com/containerd/cgroups/v3 v3.0.2/go.mod h1:JUgITrzdFqp42uI2ryGA+ge0ap/nxzYgkGmIcetmErE=
-github.com/containerd/containerd v1.7.8 h1:RkwgOW3AVUT3H/dyT0W03Dc8AzlpMG65lX48KftOFSM=
-github.com/containerd/containerd v1.7.8/go.mod h1:L/Hn9qylJtUFT7cPeM0Sr3fATj+WjHwRQ0lyrYk3OPY=
+github.com/containerd/containerd v1.7.9 h1:KOhK01szQbM80YfW1H6RZKh85PHGqY/9OcEZ35Je8sc=
+github.com/containerd/containerd v1.7.9/go.mod h1:0/W44LWEYfSHoxBtsHIiNU/duEkgpMokemafHVCpq9Y=
 github.com/containerd/log v0.1.0 h1:TCJt7ioM2cr/tfR8GPbGf9/VRAX8D2B4PjzCpfX540I=
 github.com/containerd/log v0.1.0/go.mod h1:VRRf09a7mHDIRezVKTRCrOq78v577GXq3bSa3EhrzVo=
 github.com/containerd/stargz-snapshotter/estargz v0.15.1 h1:eXJjw9RbkLFgioVaTG+G/ZW/0kEe2oEKCdS/ZxIyoCU=
diff --git a/vendor/modules.txt b/vendor/modules.txt
index 05ae677ecf..50c19bb658 100644
--- a/vendor/modules.txt
+++ b/vendor/modules.txt
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ github.com/chzyer/readline
 # github.com/containerd/cgroups/v3 v3.0.2
 ## explicit; go 1.18
 github.com/containerd/cgroups/v3/cgroup1/stats
-# github.com/containerd/containerd v1.7.8
+# github.com/containerd/containerd v1.7.9
 ## explicit; go 1.19
 github.com/containerd/containerd/errdefs
 github.com/containerd/containerd/log