Details
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Improvement
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Resolution: Fixed
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Major - P3
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Fully Compatible
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Security 2020-04-20
Description
explicit_bzero was added to GLIBC 2.25+, FreeBSD 11.0+, and OpenBSD 5.5+. MongoDB should use it if available on platforms that support it instead of the for loop in secure_zero_memory.cpp.
For more information, see https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Erasing-Sensitive-Data.html