Apple Mac OS X Loginwindow.app information leakage

Username and password can be found in process memory...

Loginwindow.app and Mac OS X

Moin moin Bugtraq readers, Bill Paul and I have discovered that LoginWindow.app doesn't clear credentials after a user is authenticated. We discovered this while testing our EFI-based memory recovery utilities discussed recently0. We've found that depending on the state of capture, the passwords...

CVE-2004-0622: Undefined Security Weakness

Apple Mac OS X 10.3.4, 10.4, 10.5, and possibly other versions does not properly clear memory for login aka Loginwindow.app, Keychain, or FileVault passwords, which could allow the root user or an attacker with physical access to obtain sensitive information by reading memory...