Farm deployment of exploded archive with 0-byte files fails with NullPointerException

Deploying an exploded archive containing a 0-byte file causes the following NullPointerException exception on the remote node.
The farm deployment process aborts at this point.
(The following stack trace from EAP 5.0)

ERROR [FileWriteAction] Caught exception in doPrepare()
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.clustered.local.file.FileUtil.localMove(FileUtil.java:50)
at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.clustered.local.file.AbstractFileWriteAction.modifyTarget(AbstractFileWriteAction.java:88)
at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.clustered.local.file.AbstractLocalContentChangeAction.doPrepare(AbstractLocalContentChangeAction.java:91)
at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.clustered.sync.AbstractSynchronizationAction.prepare(AbstractSynchronizationAction.java:125)
at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.clustered.local.AbstractLocalContentManager.prepareSynchronization(AbstractLocalContentManager.java:315)
at org.jboss.profileservice.cluster.repository.DefaultRepositoryClusteringHandler$ActiveSynchronization.prepare(DefaultRepositoryClusteringHandler.java:
1274)
at org.jboss.profileservice.cluster.repository.DefaultRepositoryClusteringHandler.handlePrepare(DefaultRepositoryClusteringHandler.java:868)
at org.jboss.profileservice.cluster.repository.DefaultRepositoryClusteringHandler.access$700(DefaultRepositoryClusteringHandler.java:68)
at org.jboss.profileservice.cluster.repository.DefaultRepositoryClusteringHandler$RpcTarget.prepare(DefaultRepositoryClusteringHandler.java:1119)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.jgroups.blocks.MethodCall.invoke(MethodCall.java:331)
at org.jboss.ha.framework.server.ClusterPartition$RpcHandler.handle(ClusterPartition.java:2313)
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