diff --git a/deps/curl.mk b/deps/curl.mk
index 4314bb89cc739..444334b581fed 100644
--- a/deps/curl.mk
+++ b/deps/curl.mk
@@ -57,16 +57,7 @@ CURL_TLS_CONFIGURE_FLAGS := --with-mbedtls=$(build_prefix)
 endif
 CURL_CONFIGURE_FLAGS += $(CURL_TLS_CONFIGURE_FLAGS)
 
-$(BUILDDIR)/curl-$(CURL_VER)/source-extracted/curl-memdup.patch-applied: $(SRCCACHE)/curl-$(CURL_VER)/source-extracted
-	mkdir -p $(dir $@)
-	cd $(SRCCACHE)/curl-$(CURL_VER) && \
-		patch -p1 -f < $(SRCDIR)/patches/curl-memdup.patch
-	echo 1 > $@
-
-$(SRCCACHE)/curl-$(CURL_VER)/source-patched: $(BUILDDIR)/curl-$(CURL_VER)/source-extracted/curl-memdup.patch-applied
-	echo 1 > $@
-
-$(BUILDDIR)/curl-$(CURL_VER)/build-configured: $(SRCCACHE)/curl-$(CURL_VER)/source-patched
+$(BUILDDIR)/curl-$(CURL_VER)/build-configured: $(SRCCACHE)/curl-$(CURL_VER)/source-extracted
 	mkdir -p $(dir $@)
 	cd $(dir $@) && \
 	$(dir $<)/configure $(CURL_CONFIGURE_FLAGS) \
diff --git a/deps/patches/curl-memdup.patch b/deps/patches/curl-memdup.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 596606027c447..0000000000000
--- a/deps/patches/curl-memdup.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-From 5cc2b016c36aaf5a08e2feb7c068fca5bb0a8052 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
-Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2024 15:22:08 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] md4: include strdup.h for the memdup proto
-
-Reported-by: Erik Schnetter
-Fixes #12849
-Closes #12863
----
- lib/md4.c | 1 +
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
-
-diff --git a/lib/md4.c b/lib/md4.c
-index 067c211e420afd..58dd1166cf924f 100644
---- a/lib/md4.c
-+++ b/lib/md4.c
-@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
- 
- #include <string.h>
- 
-+#include "strdup.h"
- #include "curl_md4.h"
- #include "warnless.h"
-