diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 89457b7c6..ccc08bd52 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1116,9 +1116,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "signal-hook"
-version = "0.1.15"
+version = "0.1.16"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8ff2db2112d6c761e12522c65f7768548bd6e8cd23d2a9dae162520626629bd6"
+checksum = "604508c1418b99dfe1925ca9224829bb2a8a9a04dda655cc01fcad46f4ab05ed"
 dependencies = [
  "libc",
  "signal-hook-registry",
diff --git a/vmm/Cargo.toml b/vmm/Cargo.toml
index 21a3a397d..96f7a01e5 100644
--- a/vmm/Cargo.toml
+++ b/vmm/Cargo.toml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ vm-memory = { version = "0.2.1", features = ["backend-mmap", "backend-atomic"] }
 vm-migration = { path = "../vm-migration" }
 vm-virtio = { path = "../vm-virtio" }
 vmm-sys-util = { version = ">=0.5.0", features = ["with-serde"] }
-signal-hook = "0.1.15"
+signal-hook = "0.1.16"
 tempfile = "3.1.0"
 
 
diff --git a/vmm/src/seccomp_filters.rs b/vmm/src/seccomp_filters.rs
index 6494f88f5..9d82f98fa 100644
--- a/vmm/src/seccomp_filters.rs
+++ b/vmm/src/seccomp_filters.rs
@@ -261,6 +261,7 @@ pub fn vmm_thread_filter() -> Result<SeccompFilter, Error> {
             allow_syscall(libc::SYS_rt_sigreturn),
             allow_syscall(libc::SYS_sched_getaffinity),
             allow_syscall(libc::SYS_sendmsg),
+            allow_syscall(libc::SYS_sendto),
             allow_syscall(libc::SYS_set_robust_list),
             allow_syscall(libc::SYS_set_tid_address),
             allow_syscall(libc::SYS_sigaltstack),