diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 5f4d73000..59accf1dd 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -45,6 +45,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "memchr",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "alloca"
+version = "0.4.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e5a7d05ea6aea7e9e64d25b9156ba2fee3fdd659e34e41063cd2fc7cd020d7f4"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "android_system_properties"
 version = "0.1.5"
@@ -568,10 +577,11 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "criterion"
-version = "0.7.0"
+version = "0.8.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "e1c047a62b0cc3e145fa84415a3191f628e980b194c2755aa12300a4e6cbd928"
+checksum = "a0dfe5e9e71bdcf4e4954f7d14da74d1cdb92a3a07686452d1509652684b1aab"
 dependencies = [
+ "alloca",
  "anes",
  "cast",
  "ciborium",
@@ -580,6 +590,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "itertools 0.13.0",
  "num-traits",
  "oorandom",
+ "page_size",
  "plotters",
  "rayon",
  "regex",
@@ -591,9 +602,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "criterion-plot"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.8.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "9b1bcc0dc7dfae599d84ad0b1a55f80cde8af3725da8313b528da95ef783e338"
+checksum = "5de36c2bee19fba779808f92bf5d9b0fa5a40095c277aba10c458a12b35d21d6"
 dependencies = [
  "cast",
  "itertools 0.13.0",
diff --git a/src/hyperlight_host/Cargo.toml b/src/hyperlight_host/Cargo.toml
index 20bb2b9d5..bf90ccf1b 100644
--- a/src/hyperlight_host/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/hyperlight_host/Cargo.toml
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ opentelemetry-otlp = { version = "0.31.0", default-features = false, features =
 opentelemetry-semantic-conventions = "0.31"
 opentelemetry_sdk = { version = "0.31.0", features = ["rt-tokio"] }
 tokio = { version = "1.48.0", features = ["full"] }
-criterion = "0.7.0"
+criterion = "0.8.0"
 tracing-chrome = "0.7.2"
 metrics-util = "0.20.1"
 metrics-exporter-prometheus = { version = "0.17.2", default-features = false }