diff --git a/repos/libports/src/app/fetchurl/component.cc b/repos/libports/src/app/fetchurl/component.cc
index 80beeeefa7..a4b127024f 100644
--- a/repos/libports/src/app/fetchurl/component.cc
+++ b/repos/libports/src/app/fetchurl/component.cc
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ void Libc::Component::construct(Libc::Env &env)
 	Genode::Path<256>   path;
 	CURLcode res = CURLE_OK;
 
-	curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_DEFAULT);
+	Libc::with_libc([&]() { curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_DEFAULT); });
 
 	Genode::Xml_node config_node = config.xml();