+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1103101 +++

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1102083 +++

This has come up in the CentOS bug tracker: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=7139

At least the following package is affected -  openldap-servers-2.4.23-34.el6_5.1.x86_64

After a short discussion with the reporter I decided to open this bug here. 

Short description (taken from the bug report):

When running /usr/libexec/openldap-generate-server-cert.sh, a tmp file with a random name is being generated, and should be deleted after use. A wrong variable is used in deletion, leaving security relevant material lying around in an insecure fashion.

In the trace below you can see the CERT_RANDOM file being generated, but it is attempted to delete $RANDOM_DATA after use.

This is wrong. It should have been "rm -rf $CERT_RANDOM".

After completion of the script, the file is left behind in /tmp, containing random bytes used to generate the cert. This is a security issue, even if the permissions of the file are restrictive.

How to reproduce:

[root@cloud01 ~]# cd /etc/openldap/certs
[root@cloud01 certs]# \rm -rf *
[root@cloud01 certs]# echo keks > password
[root@cloud01 certs]# certutil -d $(pwd) -N -f password
[root@cloud01 certs]# bash -xv /usr/libexec/openldap/generate-server-cert.sh
...
CERT_RANDOM=$(mktemp)
mktemp)
mktemp
++ mktemp
+ CERT_RANDOM=/tmp/tmp.toBUDh50mG
dd if=$RANDOM_SOURCE bs=$CERT_RANDOM_BYTES count=1 of=$CERT_RANDOM &>/dev/null
+ dd if=/dev/urandom bs=256 count=1 of=/tmp/tmp.toBUDh50mG

certutil -d "$CERTDB_DIR" -f "$PASSWORD_FILE" -z "$CERT_RANDOM" \
        -S -x -n "$CERT_NAME" \
        -s "CN=$HOSTNAME_FQDN" \
        -t TC,, \
        -k $CERT_KEY_TYPE -g $CERT_KEY_SIZE \
        -v $CERT_VALID_MONTHS \
        -8 "$ALT_NAMES" \
        &>/dev/null
+ certutil -d /etc/openldap/certs -f /etc/openldap/certs/password -z /tmp/tmp.toBUDh50mG -S -x -n 'OpenLDAP Server' -s CN=cloud01.bki1.syseleven.de -t TC,, -k rsa -g 1024 -v 12 -8 cloud01.bki1.syseleven.de,localhost,localhost.localdomain

rm -f $RANDOM_DATA
+ rm -f
...

[root@cloud01 certs]# ls -l /tmp/tmp.toBUDh50mG
-rw------- 1 root root 256 May 27 15:24 /tmp/tmp.toBUDh50mG

--- Additional comment from Jan Synacek on 2014-05-30 11:00:52 CEST ---

Thanks for the report.

Trivial patch:
-rm -f $RANDOM_DATA
+rm -f $CERT_RANDOM