diff --git a/projects/njs/Dockerfile b/projects/njs/Dockerfile
index defa36240..41f2940a4 100644
--- a/projects/njs/Dockerfile
+++ b/projects/njs/Dockerfile
@@ -16,8 +16,10 @@
 
 FROM gcr.io/oss-fuzz-base/base-builder
 MAINTAINER mmoroz@chromium.org
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y make autoconf automake libtool mercurial libpcre3-dev libreadline-dev
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y make autoconf automake libtool \
+    mercurial libpcre3-dev libreadline-dev subversion
 RUN hg clone http://hg.nginx.org/njs
+RUN svn co svn://vcs.exim.org/pcre/code/trunk pcre
 
 WORKDIR njs
 COPY build.sh njs_process_script_fuzzer.c $SRC/
diff --git a/projects/njs/build.sh b/projects/njs/build.sh
index a9539c97b..93f05790f 100755
--- a/projects/njs/build.sh
+++ b/projects/njs/build.sh
@@ -15,6 +15,14 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
+# Build pcre dependency to be linked statically.
+pushd $SRC/pcre
+./autogen.sh
+./configure
+make -j$(nproc) clean
+make -j$(nproc) all
+popd
+
 # build project
 rm -rf build
 
@@ -26,8 +34,10 @@ make njs
 $CC $CFLAGS -Inxt -Ibuild -Injs -c \
     $SRC/njs_process_script_fuzzer.c -o build/njs_process_script_fuzzer.o
 
-$CXX $CXXFLAGS build/njs_process_script_fuzzer.o -o $OUT/njs_process_script_fuzzer \
-    $LIB_FUZZING_ENGINE build/libnxt.a build/libnjs.a -lm -lpcre -lreadline
+$CXX $CXXFLAGS build/njs_process_script_fuzzer.o \
+    -o $OUT/njs_process_script_fuzzer \
+    $LIB_FUZZING_ENGINE build/libnxt.a build/libnjs.a \
+    $SRC/pcre/.libs/libpcre.a -lm -lreadline
 
 SEED_CORPUS_PATH=$OUT/njs_process_script_fuzzer_seed_corpus
 mkdir -p $SEED_CORPUS_PATH
@@ -42,4 +52,3 @@ set -x
 
 zip -q $SEED_CORPUS_PATH.zip $SEED_CORPUS_PATH
 rm -rf $SEED_CORPUS_PATH
-
diff --git a/projects/njs/project.yaml b/projects/njs/project.yaml
index f2a083fda..8bb8e9f51 100644
--- a/projects/njs/project.yaml
+++ b/projects/njs/project.yaml
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@ homepage: "https://nginx.org/en/docs/njs/"
 primary_contact: "mmoroz@google.com"
 sanitizers:
   - address
+  - memory
   - undefined
-