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has caused the Debian Bug report #307863,
regarding pam: Overwriting passwords in memory
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Package: pam
Severity: wishlist
Tags: security
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It may be prudent to see practice from package "shadow" of zeroing passwords
in any form immediately after no longer needing it, copied to PAM. pam_unix
would be a nice
place to start.
Primoz Bratanic
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PAM already clears memory. If there are specific cases where this is
not true, please detail them.
Thanks!
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Kees Cook @outflux.net
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