diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 0a6bdd1d73..463c69c043 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1317,6 +1317,7 @@ AC_CHECK_FUNCS([ \
 	unlinkat \
 	posix_fallocate \
 	sendmmsg \
+	explicit_bzero \
 	])
 
 AC_CHECK_MEMBERS([struct mmsghdr.msg_hdr], [], [], FRR_INCLUDES)
diff --git a/lib/explicit_bzero.c b/lib/explicit_bzero.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fa64ed85bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/explicit_bzero.c
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+/*
+ * Public domain.
+ * Written by Matthew Dempsky.
+ * Adapted for frr.
+ */
+
+#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
+#include "config.h"
+#endif
+
+#include <string.h>
+
+#ifndef HAVE_EXPLICIT_BZERO
+#undef explicit_bzero
+
+
+void explicit_bzero(void *buf, size_t len);
+__attribute__((__weak__)) void
+__explicit_bzero_hook(void *buf, size_t len);
+
+__attribute__((__weak__)) void
+__explicit_bzero_hook(void *buf, size_t len)
+{
+}
+
+#if defined(__clang__)
+#pragma clang optimize off
+#else
+#pragma GCC optimize("00")
+#endif
+
+void
+explicit_bzero(void *buf, size_t len)
+{
+	memset(buf, 0, len);
+	__explicit_bzero_hook(buf, len);
+}
+
+#endif
diff --git a/lib/md5.c b/lib/md5.c
index 5c93c7bc1f..20da6488c4 100644
--- a/lib/md5.c
+++ b/lib/md5.c
@@ -439,4 +439,5 @@ void hmac_md5(unsigned char *text, int text_len, unsigned char *key,
 	MD5Update(&context, digest, 16);       /* then results of 1st
 						* hash */
 	MD5Final(digest, &context); /* finish up 2nd pass */
+	explicit_bzero(&context, sizeof(context));
 }
diff --git a/lib/sha256.c b/lib/sha256.c
index a9b7a4aefc..f1727b6323 100644
--- a/lib/sha256.c
+++ b/lib/sha256.c
@@ -186,10 +186,10 @@ static void SHA256_Transform(uint32_t *state, const unsigned char block[64])
 		state[i] += S[i];
 
 	/* Clean the stack. */
-	memset(W, 0, 256);
-	memset(S, 0, 32);
-	memset(&t0, 0, sizeof(t0));
-	memset(&t1, 0, sizeof(t0));
+	explicit_bzero(W, 256);
+	explicit_bzero(S, 32);
+	explicit_bzero(&t0, sizeof(t0));
+	explicit_bzero(&t1, sizeof(t0));
 }
 
 static unsigned char PAD[64] = {
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ void SHA256_Final(unsigned char digest[32], SHA256_CTX *ctx)
 	be32enc_vect(digest, ctx->state, 32);
 
 	/* Clear the context state */
-	memset((void *)ctx, 0, sizeof(*ctx));
+	explicit_bzero((void *)ctx, sizeof(*ctx));
 }
 
 /* Initialize an HMAC-SHA256 operation with the given key. */
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ void HMAC__SHA256_Init(HMAC_SHA256_CTX *ctx, const void *_K, size_t Klen)
 	SHA256_Update(&ctx->octx, pad, 64);
 
 	/* Clean the stack. */
-	memset(khash, 0, 32);
+	explicit_bzero(khash, 32);
 }
 
 /* Add bytes to the HMAC-SHA256 operation. */
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ void HMAC__SHA256_Final(unsigned char digest[32], HMAC_SHA256_CTX *ctx)
 	SHA256_Final(digest, &ctx->octx);
 
 	/* Clean the stack. */
-	memset(ihash, 0, 32);
+	explicit_bzero(ihash, 32);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -409,5 +409,5 @@ void PBKDF2_SHA256(const uint8_t *passwd, size_t passwdlen, const uint8_t *salt,
 	}
 
 	/* Clean PShctx, since we never called _Final on it. */
-	memset(&PShctx, 0, sizeof(HMAC_SHA256_CTX));
+	explicit_bzero(&PShctx, sizeof(HMAC_SHA256_CTX));
 }
diff --git a/lib/subdir.am b/lib/subdir.am
index c3899c4e0f..b0c311e7f2 100644
--- a/lib/subdir.am
+++ b/lib/subdir.am
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #
 # libfrr
 #
+
 lib_LTLIBRARIES += lib/libfrr.la
 lib_libfrr_la_LDFLAGS = $(LIB_LDFLAGS) -version-info 0:0:0 -Xlinker -e_libfrr_version
 lib_libfrr_la_LIBADD = $(LIBCAP) $(UNWIND_LIBS) $(LIBYANG_LIBS) $(LUA_LIB) $(UST_LIBS) $(LIBCRYPT) $(LIBDL) $(LIBM)
@@ -22,6 +23,7 @@ lib_libfrr_la_SOURCES = \
 	lib/debug.c \
 	lib/defaults.c \
 	lib/distribute.c \
+	lib/explicit_bzero.c \
 	lib/ferr.c \
 	lib/filter.c \
 	lib/filter_cli.c \
@@ -337,6 +339,7 @@ lib_libfrrsnmp_la_SOURCES = \
 	lib/snmp.c \
 	# end
 
+
 #
 # c-ares support
 #
diff --git a/lib/zebra.h b/lib/zebra.h
index e8ddd869bb..53ae5b4e9e 100644
--- a/lib/zebra.h
+++ b/lib/zebra.h
@@ -230,6 +230,10 @@ size_t strlcpy(char *__restrict dest,
 	       const char *__restrict src, size_t destsize);
 #endif
 
+#ifndef HAVE_EXPLICIT_BZERO
+void explicit_bzero(void *buf, size_t len);
+#endif
+
 #if !defined(HAVE_STRUCT_MMSGHDR_MSG_HDR) || !defined(HAVE_SENDMMSG)
 /* avoid conflicts in case we have partial support */
 #define mmsghdr frr_mmsghdr