silc question - insecure memory

[cdowns]

Good Evening,
while screwing around tonight checking memory for the SSH2 advisory. I noticed passphrase and complete sessions from silc in memory. I dont know if this is normal for silc ( I wouldnt think it would be ) but all you need to do it is:

cdowns@Vader:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/mem of=/home/cdowns/mem.dump | less ~cdowns/mem.dump

then just search for you key phrase.

~!>D

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char ash[]="\x48\x61\x69\x6C\x20"
"\x74\x6F\x20\x74\x68\x65\x20\x4B"
"\x69\x6E\x67";
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