diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index e0295ba8..da4e5ce5 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ LMDB 0.9.15 Release Engineering
 	Fix mdb_rebalance collapsing root (ITS#8062)
 	Fix mdb_load with large values (ITS#8066)
 	Fix to retry writes on EINTR (ITS#8106)
+	Fix mdb_cursor_del on empty DB (ITS#8109)
 	Added workaround for fdatasync bug in ext3fs
 	Build
 		Don't use -fPIC for static lib
diff --git a/mdb.c b/mdb.c
index 78e5bd84..e447cfce 100644
--- a/mdb.c
+++ b/mdb.c
@@ -8569,6 +8569,13 @@ mdb_cursor_del0(MDB_cursor *mc)
 		MDB_cursor *m2, *m3;
 		MDB_dbi dbi = mc->mc_dbi;
 
+		/* DB is totally empty now, just bail out.
+		 * Other cursors adjustments were already done
+		 * by mdb_rebalance and aren't needed here.
+		 */
+		if (!mc->mc_snum)
+			return rc;
+
 		mp = mc->mc_pg[mc->mc_top];
 		nkeys = NUMKEYS(mp);