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Apparent bugs in early (c)ESXi 6 builds OpenSSL implementation

Some builds of the OpenSSL binary shipped in early versions of the (c)ESXi 6 branch can't decode base64 strings which may lead to (c)XSIBackup failing at the time to run some commands.

You can reproduce the error by running this code snippet

echo 'Uj0iJCggKCIvc2NyYXRjaC9YU0kvWFNJQmFja3VwLURDL3hzaWJhY2t1cCIgLS1mcmVlLXNwYWNlICIvdm1mcy92b2x1bWVzL2RhdGFzdG9yZTEvcmVwbGljYXMvMyIpIDI+JjEgKSI7ZWNobyAtbiAkPyI7IiRSCg==' | openssl base64 -d

It should return

R="$( ("/scratch/XSI/XSIBackup-DC/xsibackup" --free-space "/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/replicas/3") 2>&1 )";echo -n $?";"$R

In case your OpenSSL binary is affected you would get nothing.

You can ignore the additional bug that causes the constant output:

WARNING: can't open config file: /usr/ssl/openssl.cnf

We have already addressed it by filtering it out.

We'll try to address this issue by working it around.