diff --git a/changes/bug15205 b/changes/bug15205
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0cb9f3f4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/bug15205
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+  o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
+    - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug
+      in OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first
+      appeared in OSX 10.9. 
+      
diff --git a/src/common/compat.h b/src/common/compat.h
index 23f861419..11b41cded 100644
--- a/src/common/compat.h
+++ b/src/common/compat.h
@@ -215,6 +215,18 @@ extern INLINE double U64_TO_DBL(uint64_t x) {
 #define strncasecmp _strnicmp
 #define strcasecmp _stricmp
 #endif
+
+#if defined __APPLE__
+/* On OSX 10.9 and later, the overlap-checking code for strlcat would
+ * appear to have a severe bug that can sometimes cause aborts in Tor.
+ * Instead, use the non-checking variants.  This is sad.
+ *
+ * See https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/15205
+ */
+#undef strlcat
+#undef strlcpy
+#endif
+
 #ifndef HAVE_STRLCAT
 size_t strlcat(char *dst, const char *src, size_t siz) ATTR_NONNULL((1,2));
 #endif