When using PAM authentication, a copy is made of the username and password in the auth_info structure.
The password copy is not cleared from memory when the structure is deallocated. This could mean the password is revealed to an attacker from a coredump.
One solution is to clear the password when the struct is deallocated. However, the username and password in the auth_info struct are only required for the duration of the PAM conversation function. A better solution is to remove the username and password from the auth_info struct entirely, and just use pointers for the duration of the time the callback function is used.
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