diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index b3cbc9a3f..469dbc16e 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Imports:
     R6 (>= 2.0.0),
     stringi (>= 0.3.0),
     jsonlite (>= 0.9.16),
-    httpuv (>= 1.4.0),
+    httpuv (>= 1.4.5.9000),
     crayon
 LazyData: TRUE
 ByteCompile: TRUE
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ Suggests:
     analogsea,
     swagger (> 3.20.3)
 Remotes:
-    rstudio/swagger
+    rstudio/swagger,
+    rstudio/httpuv
 Collate:
     'content-types.R'
     'cookie-parser.R'
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index e2ea5c7a9..06c5f4a7e 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ plumber 0.5.0
 
 * A multiline POST body is now collapsed to a single line (@robertdj, [#270](https://github.com/trestletech/plumber/issues/270) [#297](https://github.com/trestletech/plumber/pull/297)).
 
+* Bumped version of httpuv to >= 1.4.5.9000 to address an unexpected segfault (@shapenaji, [#289](https://github.com/trestletech/plumber/issues/289))
+
 
 
 plumber 0.4.6