diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 18f18fab9..2256ae86b 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2895,9 +2895,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "zerocopy"
-version = "0.7.8"
+version = "0.7.21"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7b9707ff4c1f8e8e86e0b5b91bee9f5f5f3a1e1c818cf107f81ec70fa33dc22c"
+checksum = "686b7e407015242119c33dab17b8f61ba6843534de936d94368856528eae4dcc"
 dependencies = [
  "byteorder",
  "zerocopy-derive",
@@ -2905,9 +2905,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "zerocopy-derive"
-version = "0.7.8"
+version = "0.7.21"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7a3c47d3651d0b25c7ac649a845881fe6fdc6cbf7c75684266a50129ebebff79"
+checksum = "020f3dfe25dfc38dfea49ce62d5d45ecdd7f0d8a724fa63eb36b6eba4ec76806"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
diff --git a/vmm/Cargo.toml b/vmm/Cargo.toml
index 7b8edfb36..7b5b6fe9e 100644
--- a/vmm/Cargo.toml
+++ b/vmm/Cargo.toml
@@ -62,4 +62,4 @@ vm-migration = { path = "../vm-migration" }
 vm-virtio = { path = "../vm-virtio" }
 vmm-sys-util = { version = "0.11.0", features = ["with-serde"] }
 zbus = { version = "3.11.1", optional = true }
-zerocopy = { version = "0.7.8", features = ["derive"] }
+zerocopy = { version = "0.7.21", features = ["derive"] }