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crypto.generateKeyPair generates error ERR_OSSL_CRYPTO_MALLOC_FAILURE in node 17.2.0 #41428
Description
Version
17.2.0
Platform
Linux raynos-Precision-5530 5.4.0-91-generic #102-Ubuntu SMP Fri Nov 5 16:31:28 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Subsystem
crypto
What steps will reproduce the bug?
Run the following script in node 17.2.0 and node 16.
const crypto = require('crypto')
crypto.generateKeyPair('rsa', {
modulusLength: 4096,
publicKeyEncoding: {
type: 'spki',
format: 'pem'
},
privateKeyEncoding: {
type: 'pkcs8',
format: 'pem',
cipher: 'aes-256-cbc',
passphrase: ''
}
}, (err, publicKey, privateKey) => {
console.log('err', err)
// cb(null, { publicKey, privateKey })
})Node 16 has no error, node 17 has an err
The err is
[Error: error:078C0100:common libcrypto routines::malloc failure] {
opensslErrorStack: [ 'error:078C0100:common libcrypto routines::malloc failure' ],
library: 'common libcrypto routines',
reason: 'malloc failure',
code: 'ERR_OSSL_CRYPTO_MALLOC_FAILURE'
}
How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?
every time on linux and mac.
What is the expected behavior?
I expected node 17 to not have a regression
What do you see instead?
I see an error.
[Error: error:078C0100:common libcrypto routines::malloc failure] {
opensslErrorStack: [ 'error:078C0100:common libcrypto routines::malloc failure' ],
library: 'common libcrypto routines',
reason: 'malloc failure',
code: 'ERR_OSSL_CRYPTO_MALLOC_FAILURE'
}
Additional information
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Activity
panva commentedon Jan 7, 2022
Not sure if it's intended or not, but the error only occurs when the private key encryption passphrase is empty, when one is provided this works as expected, likewise when no encryption is requested it's fine.
cc @nodejs/crypto
Raynos commentedon Jan 7, 2022
I'm using this in my test suite, setting
passphraseto a string like'hello'does indeed allow me to run my test suite on both node 16 and node 17.RaisinTen commentedon Jan 14, 2022
I think this is a bug in OpenSSL, so I sent a report with my findings: openssl/openssl#17506
RaisinTen commentedon Jan 14, 2022
Also, cc @tniessen since you had worked on #35914
RaisinTen commentedon Jan 28, 2022
My fix landed in the OpenSSL repo: openssl/openssl#17507! Will cherry-pick it to https://github.com/quictls/openssl tomorrow.
mhdawson commentedon Feb 28, 2022
@RaisinTen was this cherry picked over?
RaisinTen commentedon Mar 1, 2022
@mhdawson I had sent the cherry-pick PR to the quictls repo - quictls/openssl#75 but I'm yet to get a review from the maintainers.
mhdawson commentedon Mar 1, 2022
Thanks for the update, was just wondering if it was progressing.,
RaisinTen commentedon Mar 13, 2022
Sent a cherry-pick pr to Node.js anyways because my change has already landed in the openssl repo - #42319
test,crypto: add and update empty passphrase regression tests
test,crypto: add and update empty passphrase regression tests
test,crypto: add and update empty passphrase regression tests
test,crypto: add and update empty passphrase regression tests
test,crypto: add and update empty passphrase regression tests
test,crypto: add and update empty passphrase regression tests