diff --git a/lib/exprengine.cpp b/lib/exprengine.cpp
index b47b16ea2..65b928f5e 100644
--- a/lib/exprengine.cpp
+++ b/lib/exprengine.cpp
@@ -1887,6 +1887,18 @@ static ExprEngine::ValuePtr executeFunctionCall(const Token *tok, Data &data)
         }
     }
 
+    else if (const auto *f = data.settings->library.getAllocFuncInfo(tok->astOperand1())) {
+        if (!f->initData) {
+            const std::string name = data.getNewSymbolName();
+            auto size = std::make_shared<ExprEngine::IntRange>(data.getNewSymbolName(), 1, ~0U);
+            auto val = std::make_shared<ExprEngine::UninitValue>();
+            auto result = std::make_shared<ExprEngine::ArrayValue>(name, size, val, false, false, false);
+            call(data.callbacks, tok, result, &data);
+            data.functionCall();
+            return result;
+        }
+    }
+
     auto val = getValueRangeFromValueType(tok->valueType(), data);
     call(data.callbacks, tok, val, &data);
     data.functionCall();
diff --git a/test/testbughuntingchecks.cpp b/test/testbughuntingchecks.cpp
index 8055033b4..9b1f35c71 100644
--- a/test/testbughuntingchecks.cpp
+++ b/test/testbughuntingchecks.cpp
@@ -25,21 +25,24 @@
 class TestBughuntingChecks : public TestFixture {
 public:
     TestBughuntingChecks() : TestFixture("TestBughuntingChecks") {
+        settings.platform(cppcheck::Platform::Unix64);
     }
 
 private:
+    Settings settings;
+
     void run() OVERRIDE {
 #ifdef USE_Z3
+        LOAD_LIB_2(settings.library, "std.cfg");
         TEST_CASE(uninit);
         TEST_CASE(uninit_array);
         TEST_CASE(uninit_function_par);
+        TEST_CASE(uninit_malloc);
         TEST_CASE(ctu);
 #endif
     }
 
     void check(const char code[]) {
-        Settings settings;
-        settings.platform(cppcheck::Platform::Unix64);
         Tokenizer tokenizer(&settings, this);
         std::istringstream istr(code);
         tokenizer.tokenize(istr, "test.cpp");
@@ -89,6 +92,11 @@ private:
         ASSERT_EQUALS("", errout.str());
     }
 
+    void uninit_malloc() {
+        check("void foo() { char *p = malloc(10); return *p; }");
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("[test.cpp:1]: (error) Cannot determine that '*p' is initialized\n", errout.str());
+    }
+
     void ctu() {
         check("void init(int &x) {\n"
               "    x = 1;\n"