diff --git a/librepomgr/CMakeLists.txt b/librepomgr/CMakeLists.txt
index 6e968d9..52f084d 100644
--- a/librepomgr/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/librepomgr/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -118,6 +118,9 @@ use_openssl(VISIBILITY PUBLIC)
 # link against pthread
 list(APPEND PUBLIC_LIBRARIES pthread)
 
+# avoid fatal warning about potential null pointer deref from GCC 12 about code included from Boost.Asio
+list(APPEND META_PUBLIC_COMPILE_OPTIONS "-Wno-error=null-dereference")
+
 # apply basic configuration
 include(BasicConfig)