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Commit 9db67ef6 authored by Nicolas Iooss's avatar Nicolas Iooss Committed by Stef Walter
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pam: Destroy the password in pam_sm_open_session

gnome-keyring PAM module saves the password of the user in a blob
associated with a PAM handle, using pam_set_data (ph,
"gkr_system_authtok"...) in stash_password_for_session. This data is
kept in the process memory once the PAM session is opened, which allows
root user to read it, for example using gcore.

This password leakage has recently been instrumented with tools such as
mimipenguin (https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin and
https://github.com/n1nj4sec/mimipy).

Fix this leak by destroying the data blob which hold the password once
it has been used in pam_sm_open_session.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781486
parent 7bc86dd4
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