diff --git a/apparmor.d/abstractions/base.d/complete b/apparmor.d/abstractions/base.d/complete
index e9761b843..f0b3efdaf 100644
--- a/apparmor.d/abstractions/base.d/complete
+++ b/apparmor.d/abstractions/base.d/complete
@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@
   @{etc_rw}/localtime r,
   /etc/locale.conf r,
 
+  # mesa 24.2 introduced a shader disk cache which opens quite a lot of fd.
+  # They are not closed and get inherited by child programs. Denying it can cause
+  # crash, so we are allowing it globally while the issue is beeing fixed in mesa.
+  owner @{user_cache_dirs}/mesa_shader_cache_db/part@{int}/mesa_cache.db rw,
+  owner @{user_cache_dirs}/mesa_shader_cache_db/part@{int}/mesa_cache.idx rw,
+
   @{sys}/devices/system/cpu/possible r,
 
   @{PROC}/sys/kernel/core_pattern r,