diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 6142716785..ff785b9398 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1761,6 +1761,7 @@ AC_CHECK_FUNCS(dup3)
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(eaccess)
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(endgrent)
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(eventfd)
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS(explicit_memset)
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(fcopyfile)
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(fchmod)
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(fchown)
diff --git a/missing/explicit_bzero.c b/missing/explicit_bzero.c
index a7ff9cb517..1804cdd42e 100644
--- a/missing/explicit_bzero.c
+++ b/missing/explicit_bzero.c
@@ -33,7 +33,13 @@
 
 #undef explicit_bzero
 #ifndef HAVE_EXPLICIT_BZERO
- #ifdef HAVE_MEMSET_S
+ #ifdef HAVE_EXPLICIT_MEMSET
+void
+explicit_bzero(void *b, size_t len)
+{
+    (void)explicit_memset(b, 0, len);
+}
+ #elif defined HAVE_MEMSET_S
 void
 explicit_bzero(void *b, size_t len)
 {