diff --git a/std/process.d b/std/process.d
index 04f20c886..2d10a83d9 100644
--- a/std/process.d
+++ b/std/process.d
@@ -98,6 +98,9 @@ version (Windows)
     import std.windows.syserror;
 }
 
+import core.exception : OutOfMemoryError;
+
+import std.exception : enforce;
 import std.internal.cstring;
 import std.range.primitives;
 import std.stdio;
@@ -342,6 +345,7 @@ version (Posix) private enum InternalError : ubyte
     chdir,
     getrlimit,
     doubleFork,
+    malloc,
 }
 
 /*
@@ -510,9 +514,9 @@ private Pid spawnProcessImpl(scope const(char[])[] args,
             if (!(config & Config.inheritFDs))
             {
                 // NOTE: malloc() and getrlimit() are not on the POSIX async
-                // signal safe functions list, but practically this should not
-                // be a problem. Tha Java VM and CPython also use malloc() in
-                // its own implementation.
+                // signal safe functions list, but practically this should
+                // not be a problem. Java VM and CPython also use malloc()
+                // in its own implementation via opendir().
                 import core.stdc.stdlib : malloc;
                 import core.sys.posix.poll : pollfd, poll, POLLNVAL;
                 import core.sys.posix.sys.resource : rlimit, getrlimit, RLIMIT_NOFILE;
@@ -530,6 +534,10 @@ private Pid spawnProcessImpl(scope const(char[])[] args,
 
                 // Call poll() to see which ones are actually open:
                 auto pfds = cast(pollfd*) malloc(pollfd.sizeof * maxToClose);
+                if (pfds is null)
+                {
+                    abortOnError(forkPipeOut, InternalError.malloc, .errno);
+                }
                 foreach (i; 0 .. maxToClose)
                 {
                     pfds[i].fd = i + 3;
@@ -646,6 +654,9 @@ private Pid spawnProcessImpl(scope const(char[])[] args,
                     assert(config & Config.detached);
                     errorMsg = "Failed to fork twice";
                     break;
+                case InternalError.malloc:
+                    errorMsg = "Failed to allocate memory";
+                    break;
                 case InternalError.noerror:
                     assert(false);
             }
@@ -1516,7 +1527,6 @@ private:
     version (Posix)
     int performWait(bool block) @trusted
     {
-        import std.exception : enforce;
         enforce!ProcessException(owned, "Can't wait on a detached process");
         if (_processID == terminated) return _exitCode;
         int exitCode;
@@ -1566,7 +1576,6 @@ private:
     {
         int performWait(bool block) @trusted
         {
-            import std.exception : enforce;
             enforce!ProcessException(owned, "Can't wait on a detached process");
             if (_processID == terminated) return _exitCode;
             assert(_handle != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE);
@@ -1812,7 +1821,6 @@ void kill(Pid pid)
 /// ditto
 void kill(Pid pid, int codeOrSignal)
 {
-    import std.exception : enforce;
     enforce!ProcessException(pid.owned, "Can't kill detached process");
     version (Windows)
     {
@@ -3342,7 +3350,6 @@ static:
     */
     string opIndex(scope const(char)[] name) @safe
     {
-        import std.exception : enforce;
         string value;
         enforce(getImpl(name, value), "Environment variable not found: "~name);
         return value;
@@ -3411,7 +3418,7 @@ static:
     {
         version (Posix)
         {
-            import std.exception : enforce, errnoEnforce;
+            import std.exception : errnoEnforce;
             if (value is null)
             {
                 remove(name);
@@ -3431,7 +3438,6 @@ static:
         }
         else version (Windows)
         {
-            import std.exception : enforce;
             enforce(
                 SetEnvironmentVariableW(name.tempCStringW(), value.tempCStringW()),
                 sysErrorString(GetLastError())
@@ -3541,7 +3547,6 @@ static:
         }
         else version (Windows)
         {
-            import std.exception : enforce;
             import std.uni : toUpper;
             auto envBlock = GetEnvironmentStringsW();
             enforce(envBlock, "Failed to retrieve environment variables.");
@@ -3914,6 +3919,7 @@ extern(C)
 private int execv_(in string pathname, in string[] argv)
 {
     auto argv_ = cast(const(char)**)core.stdc.stdlib.malloc((char*).sizeof * (1 + argv.length));
+    enforce!OutOfMemoryError(argv_ !is null, "Out of memory in std.process.");
     scope(exit) core.stdc.stdlib.free(argv_);
 
     toAStringz(argv, argv_);
@@ -3924,8 +3930,10 @@ private int execv_(in string pathname, in string[] argv)
 private int execve_(in string pathname, in string[] argv, in string[] envp)
 {
     auto argv_ = cast(const(char)**)core.stdc.stdlib.malloc((char*).sizeof * (1 + argv.length));
+    enforce!OutOfMemoryError(argv_ !is null, "Out of memory in std.process.");
     scope(exit) core.stdc.stdlib.free(argv_);
     auto envp_ = cast(const(char)**)core.stdc.stdlib.malloc((char*).sizeof * (1 + envp.length));
+    enforce!OutOfMemoryError(envp_ !is null, "Out of memory in std.process.");
     scope(exit) core.stdc.stdlib.free(envp_);
 
     toAStringz(argv, argv_);
@@ -3937,6 +3945,7 @@ private int execve_(in string pathname, in string[] argv, in string[] envp)
 private int execvp_(in string pathname, in string[] argv)
 {
     auto argv_ = cast(const(char)**)core.stdc.stdlib.malloc((char*).sizeof * (1 + argv.length));
+    enforce!OutOfMemoryError(argv_ !is null, "Out of memory in std.process.");
     scope(exit) core.stdc.stdlib.free(argv_);
 
     toAStringz(argv, argv_);
@@ -3984,8 +3993,10 @@ version (Posix)
 else version (Windows)
 {
     auto argv_ = cast(const(char)**)core.stdc.stdlib.malloc((char*).sizeof * (1 + argv.length));
+    enforce!OutOfMemoryError(argv_ !is null, "Out of memory in std.process.");
     scope(exit) core.stdc.stdlib.free(argv_);
     auto envp_ = cast(const(char)**)core.stdc.stdlib.malloc((char*).sizeof * (1 + envp.length));
+    enforce!OutOfMemoryError(envp_ !is null, "Out of memory in std.process.");
     scope(exit) core.stdc.stdlib.free(envp_);
 
     toAStringz(argv, argv_);