diff --git a/projects/suricata/Dockerfile b/projects/suricata/Dockerfile
index b691df2ee..3df3f1ab4 100644
--- a/projects/suricata/Dockerfile
+++ b/projects/suricata/Dockerfile
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ ADD https://www.tcpdump.org/release/libpcap-1.9.1.tar.gz libpcap-1.9.1.tar.gz
 ADD http://www.digip.org/jansson/releases/jansson-2.12.tar.gz jansson-2.12.tar.gz
 RUN git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/yaml/libyaml
 ADD https://github.com/lz4/lz4/archive/v1.9.2.tar.gz lz4-1.9.2.tar.gz
+RUN git clone --depth 1 -b develop https://github.com/madler/zlib.git
 RUN git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/catenacyber/fuzzpcap
 
 ADD https://rules.emergingthreats.net/open/suricata/emerging.rules.zip emerging.rules.zip
diff --git a/projects/suricata/build.sh b/projects/suricata/build.sh
index a971415ea..8e19bd8df 100755
--- a/projects/suricata/build.sh
+++ b/projects/suricata/build.sh
@@ -16,6 +16,17 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 # build dependencies statically
+if [ "$SANITIZER" = "memory" ]
+then
+    (
+    cd zlib
+    ./configure --static
+    make -j$(nproc) clean
+    make -j$(nproc) all
+    make -j$(nproc) install
+    )
+fi
+
 (
 tar -xvzf pcre2-10.39.tar.gz
 cd pcre2-10.39
diff --git a/projects/suricata/project.yaml b/projects/suricata/project.yaml
index a9b6f782b..cd9e9e5c7 100644
--- a/projects/suricata/project.yaml
+++ b/projects/suricata/project.yaml
@@ -6,5 +6,6 @@ auto_ccs:
 - "p.antoine@catenacyber.fr"
 sanitizers:
   - address
+  - memory
   - undefined
 main_repo: 'https://github.com/OISF/suricata.git'