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Title:	MEM06-C. Ensure that sensitive data is not written out to disk
Author:	Chad Dougherty	Mar 03, 2008
Last Changed by:	David Svoboda	May 20, 2025
Tiny Link: (useful for email)	https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/89UxBQ
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SEI CERT C Coding Standard (1)     Page: MSC18-C. Be careful while handling sensitive data, such as passwords, in program code

Parent Page     Page: Rec. 08. Memory Management (MEM)

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External Links (10)
    cwe.mitre.org/
    cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/591.html
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/528.html
    msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms686234(v…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://www.mathworks.com/help/bugfinder/ref/certcrec.mem06…
    https://www.kb.cert.org/vulnotes/bymetric?searchview&query=…
    pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…

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