diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/transmogrify/BaseScope.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/transmogrify/BaseScope.java
index 8cad34cde..ea03bf686 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/transmogrify/BaseScope.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/usage/transmogrify/BaseScope.java
@@ -89,6 +89,9 @@ public class BaseScope extends DefaultScope {
       catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
         // no-op
       }
+      catch (NoClassDefFoundError e) {
+        // no-op, checkstyle bug 842781
+      }
     }
 
     return result;