diff --git a/profiles/apparmor.d/abstractions/base b/profiles/apparmor.d/abstractions/base
index 1dc5cf7df..bcc2554d8 100644
--- a/profiles/apparmor.d/abstractions/base
+++ b/profiles/apparmor.d/abstractions/base
@@ -100,6 +100,9 @@
   # glibc statvfs
   @{PROC}/filesystems            r,
 
+  # glibc malloc (man 5 proc)
+  @{PROC}/sys/vm/overcommit_memory r,
+
   # Workaround https://launchpad.net/bugs/359338 until upstream handles stacked
   # filesystems generally. This does not appreciably decrease security with
   # Ubuntu profiles because the user is expected to have access to files owned