diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/crun/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/crun/default.nix
index 810fefa2863f..82d9b251292a 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/crun/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/crun/default.nix
@@ -38,13 +38,13 @@ let
 in
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "crun";
-  version = "1.7";
+  version = "1.7.1";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "containers";
     repo = pname;
     rev = version;
-    sha256 = "sha256-Ly6GBR7nF7J5Dwe1jrQxR4XYsao7KxBAxGn8fsJwmMs=";
+    sha256 = "sha256-YCymMr2dxDACdBNylPXa0GKu+QRzKFi5QzlyacAyE5A=";
     fetchSubmodules = true;
   };
 
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
   strictDeps = true;
 
+  NIX_LDFLAGS = "-lcriu";
+
   # we need this before autoreconfHook does its thing in order to initialize
   # config.h with the correct values
   postPatch = ''