Land #5598:handle nil or short machine_ids gracefully

lib/rex/post/meterpreter/client_core.rb

@@ -320,9 +320,10 @@ class ClientCore < Extension
 
     # Normalise the format of the incoming machine id so that it's consistent
     # regardless of case and leading/trailing spaces. This means that the
-    # individual meterpreters don't have to care
-    mid.downcase!.strip! if mid
-    return Rex::Text.md5(mid)
+    # individual meterpreters don't have to care.
+
+    # Note that the machine ID may be blank or nil and that is OK
+    Rex::Text.md5(mid.to_s.downcase.strip)
   end
 
   def transport_remove(opts={})