[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#768681: nodejs: FTBFS in jessie: tests failures

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 06:28:05PM +0100, William Bonnet wrote:
> 
> NodeJs is expecting to have this test to fail, which is ok, but it is
> also checking for the failure reason. Since the EVPerr is not called
> before returning the computed zero value, openssl return an undefined
> failure reason. Making the nodejs unit test fail, and the package build
> fails also.

I think not returning which error occurred is actually intentional,
since you might leak that information and turn it into a padding
oracle.

But I'll check what the others thinks.


Kurt