diff --git a/archival/dpkg.c b/archival/dpkg.c
index 89446574e..5f9f3a76b 100644
--- a/archival/dpkg.c
+++ b/archival/dpkg.c
@@ -1299,7 +1299,7 @@ static char **all_control_list(const char *package_name)
 	char **remove_files;
 
 	/* Create a list of all /var/lib/dpkg/info/<package> files */
-	remove_files = malloc(sizeof(all_control_files));
+	remove_files = xmalloc(sizeof(all_control_files));
 	while (all_control_files[i]) {
 		remove_files[i] = xmalloc(strlen(package_name) + strlen(all_control_files[i]) + 21);
 		sprintf(remove_files[i], "/var/lib/dpkg/info/%s.%s", package_name, all_control_files[i]);
diff --git a/archival/libunarchive/decompress_unzip.c b/archival/libunarchive/decompress_unzip.c
index 883aaac46..3d0364339 100644
--- a/archival/libunarchive/decompress_unzip.c
+++ b/archival/libunarchive/decompress_unzip.c
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ static void make_gunzip_crc_table(void)
 
 	/* initial shift register value */
 	gunzip_crc = 0xffffffffL;
-	gunzip_crc_table = (unsigned int *) malloc(256 * sizeof(unsigned int));
+	gunzip_crc_table = (unsigned int *) xmalloc(256 * sizeof(unsigned int));
 
 	/* Compute and print table of CRC's, five per line */
 	for (i = 0; i < 256; i++) {
diff --git a/archival/rpm.c b/archival/rpm.c
index 41c6129ad..fa8db539a 100644
--- a/archival/rpm.c
+++ b/archival/rpm.c
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ rpm_index **rpm_gettags(int fd, int *num_tags)
 		storepos = lseek(fd,0,SEEK_CUR) + header.entries * 16;
 
 		while (header.entries--) {
-			tmpindex = tags[tagindex++] = malloc(sizeof(rpm_index));
+			tmpindex = tags[tagindex++] = xmalloc(sizeof(rpm_index));
 			read(fd, tmpindex, sizeof(rpm_index));
 			tmpindex->tag = ntohl(tmpindex->tag); tmpindex->type = ntohl(tmpindex->type); tmpindex->count = ntohl(tmpindex->count);
 			tmpindex->offset = storepos + ntohl(tmpindex->offset);