diff --git a/config/Config-build.in b/config/Config-build.in
index 280f71923b..0ca145e3a9 100644
--- a/config/Config-build.in
+++ b/config/Config-build.in
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ menu "Global build settings"
 	endchoice
 
 	choice
-		prompt "Enable buffer-overflows detction (FORTIFY_SOURCE)"
+		prompt "Enable buffer-overflows detection (FORTIFY_SOURCE)"
 		help
 		  Enable the _FORTIFY_SOURCE macro which introduces additional
 		  checks to detect buffer-overflows in the following standard library