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Problem

  • A node:crypto call aborts the process when the digest, cipher or curve name is a string of 2^30 characters or more: panic(main thread): abort() called, exit code 134, also inside try/catch. A debug build prints ASSERTION FAILED: expectedString at CString WTF::StringView::utf8(ConversionMode) const. Example: bun -e 'try { require("crypto").createHash("q".repeat(2**30)) } catch {}'. Twelve calls abort (Notes).
  • The cause: the name lookups in src/jsc/bindings/ncrypto.cpp (getDigestByName, getCipherByName, Cipher::FromName) and in src/jsc/bindings/node/crypto/ convert the name with utf8(), which asserts success.

Fix

  • Each site uses tryGetUTF8(). On failure no such name exists: the lookup returns nullptr or NID_undef.
  • Ec::GetCurveIdFromName and JSX509Certificate::checkIP take a StringView and convert inside. Cipher::FromName calls getCipherByName. checkIP takes its invalid-address path.
  • Correct because no name is that long. Each call reports what it reports for 2^30 - 1 characters: Digest method not supported, ERR_CRYPTO_INVALID_DIGEST, ERR_CRYPTO_UNKNOWN_CIPHER, ERR_CRYPTO_INVALID_CURVE, ERR_INVALID_ARG_VALUE, or undefined.
  • Verified: test/js/node/crypto/node-crypto.test.js, one new test, 12 cases in one child, which aborts on main. Also 16 files of test/js/node/crypto/ and the 120 test-crypto-*.js node tests (Notes). Self-reviewed: 4 concerns survived, 2 addressed, 2 answered in Notes.

Background

  • utf8() is tryGetUTF8() plus RELEASE_ASSERT. tryGetUTF8() returns std::expected.
  • For a Latin-1 string the conversion sizes its buffer at 2 x length, and a WTF::Vector holds at most 2^31 - 1 bytes. So it refuses 2^30 characters or more, before allocating.
  • BoringSSL looks a name up by C string (EVP_get_digestbyname, EVP_get_cipherbyname, OBJ_sn2nid), so the name must be converted.
Notes

Entry points. Each aborts alone on 1.4.3 (09bb54630). A debug build with src/ at main 90fba662a3 fails the new test with the assertion above. With this branch each one reports the result on the right.

const name = "q".repeat(2 ** 30);
crypto.createHash(name);                                   // Error: Digest method not supported
crypto.createHmac(name, "k");                              // ERR_CRYPTO_INVALID_DIGEST
crypto.hkdfSync(name, "k", "s", "i", 8);                   // ERR_CRYPTO_INVALID_DIGEST
crypto.createCipheriv(name, Buffer.alloc(16), Buffer.alloc(16)); // ERR_CRYPTO_UNKNOWN_CIPHER
crypto.getCipherInfo(name);                                // undefined
crypto.createSign(name);                                   // ERR_CRYPTO_INVALID_DIGEST
crypto.sign(name, Buffer.from("m"), privateKey);           // ERR_CRYPTO_INVALID_DIGEST
crypto.createECDH(name);                                   // ERR_CRYPTO_INVALID_CURVE
crypto.ECDH.convertKey(Buffer.alloc(33), name);            // ERR_CRYPTO_INVALID_CURVE
crypto.generateKeyPairSync("ec", { namedCurve: name });    // ERR_CRYPTO_INVALID_CURVE
crypto.createPublicKey({ key: Buffer.alloc(33), format: "raw-public", asymmetricKeyType: "ec", namedCurve: name }); // ERR_CRYPTO_INVALID_CURVE
x509.checkIP(name);                                        // ERR_INVALID_ARG_VALUE (Invalid IP address)

Other calls reach the same lookups and are fixed by the same lines: createVerify, verify, createDecipheriv, publicEncrypt with oaepHash, generateKeyPairSync("rsa-pss", { hashAlgorithm }), KeyObject#export({ cipher }).

The limit, traced. StringImpl::tryGetUTF8ForCharacters (Latin-1) returns UTF8ConversionError::OutOfMemory when !isValidCapacityForVector<char8_t>(characters.size() * 2), and that limit is (UINT_MAX >> 1) bytes. 1,073,741,823 characters convert. 1,073,741,824 do not. A 16-bit string fails when its UTF-8 form is 2^31 bytes or more: 715,827,882 x U+0800 converts, 715,827,883 aborts on 1.4.3. Both paths fail before they allocate, so the fixed calls cost nothing for such a name.

Why the ordinary error and not RangeError: Out of memory. The lookup answers one question: does a digest, cipher or curve have this name. For a name this long the answer is no, and no memory is needed to know it. Node v26.3.0 cannot build a string this long (its limit is 2^29 - 24). With its longest string it throws Digest method not supported.

A name between 2^30 and 2^31 - 1 characters. ERR_CRYPTO_INVALID_DIGEST puts the name in its message. With a name of 2^31 - 10 characters the message does not fit in a string, and the call throws RangeError: Out of memory from MessageBuilder (#42202). Nothing aborts.

Not in this PR. The same assert is reachable from other modules. Each has its own report or PR.

checkIP throws, checkHost and checkEmail in #42798 return undefined. Each call reports what it reports for the same string one character shorter. 2^30 - 1 x q is not an IP address, so checkIP throws ERR_INVALID_ARG_VALUE (Invalid IP address, Node: Invalid IP). The same string is a host name that matches no certificate, so checkHost returns undefined. The first revision of this PR returned undefined from checkIP. The self-review caught it.

Self-review. Four concerns survived.

  • Two were the same defect: the first revision returned undefined from checkIP. Fixed, see above.
  • Build one shared fallible converter first and make these lookups its first user. Not taken here: UTF8View: throw instead of aborting when a string does not convert to UTF-8 #42798 does that for Bun::UTF8View, and these sites need a NUL-terminated C string for BoringSSL, so they cannot use UTF8View. tryGetUTF8() is the shared fallible converter, and each site chooses its own result.
  • Reach is LOW: one fuzz report, no user report, and Node cannot build the input. True. The change is 40 lines and replaces an abort with the error the call already has.

The JWK caller of Ec::GetCurveIdFromName (KeyObject.cpp) validates crv against four literals first, so it was never reachable with a long string. It changes only because the signature changed.

Cost of the test. The length is what is under test, so the child needs a string of 1 GiB. One child runs the 12 cases, so the string is allocated once. ERR_CRYPTO_INVALID_DIGEST carries the name, so four of the errors are another 1 GiB each. A Bun.gc(true) between cases keeps the peak at 3.4 GB in a debug ASAN build, where the child takes about 3.5 s. The test skips below 10 GiB of total memory, the gate that test/js/bun/util/error-message-string-length-limit.test.ts uses, and carries a 30 s ceiling.

Suites run with this branch (debug ASAN build). node-crypto, crypto, ecdh, crypto.hmac, crypto-hmac-algorithm, hkdf-callback-null, hkdf-zero-length, crypto-oneshot, crypto-sign-regression, sign-jwk-ieee-p1363, crypto-lazyhash, x509, x509-subclass, crypto.key-objects, crypto-pqc, crypto-rsa: all pass. Every test/js/node/test/parallel/test-crypto-*.js (120 files): all pass. The 12-case fixture also passes under BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1.

Conflict to expect. #42666 (WebKit upgrade) edits the same utf8().data() lines and renames UTF8CString::characters() to legacyCStringPointer(). Whichever lands second needs that rename at the seven characters() calls here.


[human-review] gate passed · iteration 0 · 10 files touched

fails on main (without fix)
ASAN without fix: 1 FAILED
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/node/crypto/node-crypto.test.js
bun test v1.4.3 (09bb54630)

test/js/node/crypto/node-crypto.test.js:
(pass) crypto.randomBytes should return a Buffer [4.69ms]
(pass) crypto.randomInt should return a number [2.40ms]
(pass) crypto.randomInt with no arguments [3.62ms]
(pass) crypto.randomInt with one argument [3.24ms]
(pass) crypto.randomInt with a callback [39.92ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-md5 - "Hello World" [8.93ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-md5 - "Hello World" -> binary [4.80ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-ripemd160 - "Hello World" [0.85ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-ripemd160 - "Hello World" -> binary [0.78ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-sha1 - "Hello World" [7.74ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-sha1 - "Hello World" -> binary [1.07ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-sha1-2 - "Hello World" [0.58ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-sha1-2 - "Hello World" -> binary [0.61ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-sha224 - "Hello World" [2.39ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-sha224 - "Hello World" -> binary [0.81ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-sha256 - "Hello World" [1.50ms]
(pass) createH
... (truncated)

release without fix: 3 FAILED
bun test v1.4.3-canary.1 (09bb54630)

test/js/node/crypto/node-crypto.test.js:
(pass) crypto.randomBytes should return a Buffer [0.12ms]
(pass) crypto.randomInt should return a number [0.03ms]
(pass) crypto.randomInt with no arguments [0.07ms]
(pass) crypto.randomInt with one argument [0.04ms]
(pass) crypto.randomInt with a callback [0.59ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-md5 - "Hello World" [0.13ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-md5 - "Hello World" -> binary [0.06ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-ripemd160 - "Hello World"
(pass) createHash > rsa-ripemd160 - "Hello World" -> binary
(pass) createHash > rsa-sha1 - "Hello World" [0.09ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-sha1 - "Hello World" -> binary [0.02ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-sha1-2 - "Hello World"
(pass) createHash > rsa-sha1-2 - "Hello World" -> binary
(pass) createHash > rsa-sha224 - "Hello World" [0.03ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-sha224 - "Hello World" -> binary
(pass) createHash > rsa-sha256 - "Hello World" [0.01ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-sha256 - "Hello World" -> binary
(pass) createHash > rsa-sha3-224 - "Hello World"
(pass) createHash > rsa-sha3-224 - "Hello World" -> binary
(pass) createHash > rsa-sha3-256 - "Hello World"
(pass) cr
... (truncated)
passes on PR (with fix)
ASAN with fix: all passed
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/node/crypto/node-crypto.test.js
bun test v1.4.3 (09bb54630)

test/js/node/crypto/node-crypto.test.js:
(pass) crypto.randomBytes should return a Buffer [5.00ms]
(pass) crypto.randomInt should return a number [9.81ms]
(pass) crypto.randomInt with no arguments [4.21ms]
(pass) crypto.randomInt with one argument [2.92ms]
(pass) crypto.randomInt with a callback [39.25ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-md5 - "Hello World" [9.43ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-md5 - "Hello World" -> binary [5.06ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-ripemd160 - "Hello World" [0.92ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-ripemd160 - "Hello World" -> binary [0.84ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-sha1 - "Hello World" [8.14ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-sha1 - "Hello World" -> binary [1.06ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-sha1-2 - "Hello World" [0.62ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-sha1-2 - "Hello World" -> binary [0.62ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-sha224 - "Hello World" [2.49ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-sha224 - "Hello World" -> binary [1.19ms]
(pass) createHash > rsa-sha256 - "Hello World" [2.34ms]
(pass) createH
... (truncated)

release with fix: all passed
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped)
  target       linux-x64-gnu
  build type   Release
  build dir    ./build/release
  revision     1f9a2e224e
  features     lto, baseline

23 deps, 131 codegen, 1176 objects in 804ms

ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[1/1254] mkdir stamps
[2/1254] mkdir codegen
[3/1254] mkdir pch
[4/1254] mkdir obj
[5/1254] gen ErrorCode+*.h
[6/1254] install /workspace/bun
bun install v1.4.3-canary.1 (09bb54630)

Checked 22 installs across 61 packages (no changes) [36.00ms]
[7/1254] fetch picohttpparser
[picohttpparser] up to date
[8/1254] install /workspace/bun/packages/bun-error
bun install v1.4.3-canary.1 (09bb54630)

Checked 1 install across 2 packages (no changes) [2.00ms]
[9/1254] fetch zlib
[zlib] up to date
[10/1254] install /workspace/bun/src/node-fallbacks
bun install v1.4.3-canary.1 (09bb54630)

Checked 111 installs across 104 packages (no changes) [8.00ms]
[11/1254] gen node-fallbacks/react-refresh.js
Bundled 1 module in 6ms

  react-refresh.js  4.81 KB  (entry point)

[12/1254] fetch tinycc
[tinycc] up to date
[13/1254] fetch libjpeg-turbo
[libjpeg-turbo] up to d
... (truncated)
diff hotspot
src/jsc/bindings/JSX509Certificate.cpp             |  6 +-
 src/jsc/bindings/JSX509Certificate.h               |  2 +-
 src/jsc/bindings/JSX509CertificatePrototype.cpp    |  3 +-
 src/jsc/bindings/ncrypto.cpp                       | 25 ++++---
 src/jsc/bindings/ncrypto.h                         |  2 +-
 .../bindings/node/crypto/CryptoGenEcKeyPair.cpp    |  4 +-
 src/jsc/bindings/node/crypto/CryptoUtil.cpp        |  6 +-
 src/jsc/bindings/node/crypto/JSECDHConstructor.cpp | 15 ++--
 src/jsc/bindings/node/crypto/KeyObject.cpp         |  6 +-
 test/js/node/crypto/node-crypto.test.js            | 84 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 10 files changed, 125 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

gate history · 1 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 0

evidence per changed file
file                                                 reads  edits  tests
src/jsc/bindings/JSX509Certificate.cpp                   0      0     26
src/jsc/bindings/JSX509Certificate.h                     0      0     26
src/jsc/bindings/JSX509CertificatePrototype.cpp          1      1     26
src/jsc/bindings/ncrypto.cpp                             3      4     27
src/jsc/bindings/ncrypto.h                               1      0     26
src/jsc/bindings/node/crypto/CryptoGenEcKeyPair.cpp      0      0     26
src/jsc/bindings/node/crypto/CryptoUtil.cpp              0      0     26
src/jsc/bindings/node/crypto/JSECDHConstructor.cpp       1      0     26
src/jsc/bindings/node/crypto/KeyObject.cpp               1      0     26
test/js/node/crypto/node-crypto.test.js                  1      0     26

…tead of aborting

The digest, cipher and curve lookups, and X509Certificate#checkIP, converted
the string from JS with utf8(), which asserts that the conversion worked. The
conversion fails when the UTF-8 form can pass 2^31 - 1 bytes (2^30 Latin-1
characters or more), so these calls aborted the process. They now use
tryGetUTF8() and report such a string like any other unknown name.
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  • Reproduced on 1.4.3 (09bb54630): bun -e 'try { require("crypto").createHash("q".repeat(2**30)) } catch {}' prints panic(main thread): abort() called and exits with code 134. The same happens for each of the 12 calls listed in the PR body.
  • Still needed after 0ea0a56 (UTF8View: throw instead of aborting when a string does not convert to UTF-8 #42798). A debug build with src/ at main b841a68a6c, which contains that commit, fails the new test in test/js/node/crypto/node-crypto.test.js: exit code 134, ASSERTION FAILED: expectedString at StringView.cpp(121) : CString WTF::StringView::utf8(ConversionMode) const. With this branch at 1f9a2e224e (main merged in) the test passes. The test from UTF8View: throw instead of aborting when a string does not convert to UTF-8 #42798 (test/js/bun/util/utf8-conversion-limit.test.ts) passes on the same build.
  • The self-review is done. It found one defect: X509Certificate#checkIP returned undefined for a string of 2^30 characters, while a string one character shorter throws ERR_INVALID_ARG_VALUE (Invalid IP address). 00144799e3 makes checkIP throw the same error. The PR body describes the PR as it now stands.

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Crypto name resolution now uses fallible UTF-8 conversion. Failed conversions return existing unknown-name results instead of asserting. Call sites pass string views directly where supported. A subprocess test covers oversized names across crypto and X.509 APIs.

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Crypto name conversion

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Fallible lookup contracts and implementations
src/jsc/bindings/ncrypto.*, src/jsc/bindings/node/crypto/CryptoUtil.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/node/crypto/JSECDHConstructor.cpp
Digest, cipher, curve, hash, and ECDH curve lookups handle failed UTF-8 conversion with existing unknown-name results.
Crypto API call-site migration
src/jsc/bindings/JSX509Certificate.*, src/jsc/bindings/JSX509CertificatePrototype.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/node/crypto/CryptoGenEcKeyPair.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/node/crypto/JSECDHConstructor.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/node/crypto/KeyObject.cpp
Crypto and X.509 callers remove asserting conversions or pass string views directly to lookup functions.
Oversized-name regression coverage
test/js/node/crypto/node-crypto.test.js
A memory-gated subprocess test checks oversized names across digest, cipher, curve, key, and X.509 APIs.

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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. The utf8() → tryGetUTF8() swap is mechanical and the "unknown name" fallback is the right semantics, but since it touches seven sites across the node:crypto bindings (including an Ec::GetCurveIdFromName signature change) a human glance is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • Each converted site returns the same sentinel (nullptr / NID_undef / undefined) that an ordinary unknown name already produces, so callers' existing error paths fire unchanged.
  • All three callers of Ec::GetCurveIdFromName were updated for the const char* → WTF::StringView signature change; GCOwnedDataScope<StringView> and WTF::String both convert implicitly.
  • Cipher::FromName now delegates to getCipherByName, so the two cipher lookups share one guarded conversion.
  • The test drains stdout/stderr/exited concurrently, asserts a combined { stdout, stderr, exitCode } object, and skipIfs on total memory — matches the harness conventions.
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Overview

This PR replaces WTF::StringView::utf8() / WTF::String::utf8() — which RELEASE_ASSERTs on conversion failure — with tryGetUTF8() at every node:crypto name-lookup site reachable from user-controlled digest, cipher, curve, or IP-address strings. On conversion failure (a Latin-1 string of ≥2^30 characters, whose worst-case UTF-8 buffer would exceed the 2^31-1-byte WTF::Vector cap), each site now returns its existing "not found" sentinel instead of aborting the process. The touched files are ncrypto.cpp/ncrypto.h (getDigestByName, getCipherByName, Cipher::FromName, Ec::GetCurveIdFromName — signature widened to StringView), CryptoUtil.cpp (getByName hasher lookup), JSECDHConstructor.cpp (new curveNidFromShortName helper used by both constructECDH and convertKey), CryptoGenEcKeyPair.cpp and KeyObject.cpp (updated for the widened signature), and JSX509CertificatePrototype.cpp (checkIP). A single spawned-child test in test/js/node/crypto/node-crypto.test.js exercises 12 entry points with a 1 GiB string and asserts the specific error code or undefined per case.

Security risks

None identified. These are name-to-object table lookups that gate whether a digest/cipher/curve exists; no cryptographic verification is weakened. The pre-fix behavior was a process abort reachable from try/catch — a user-triggerable DoS — and the fix converts it to the ordinary ERR_CRYPTO_* error the same call already throws for a name one byte shorter. checkIP returning undefined for an unconvertible string is consistent with "no such IP in the certificate", which is trivially true for a 1 GiB string. No branch falls through to a laxer default; the [[unlikely]] failure arm returns before any BoringSSL call.

Level of scrutiny

Moderate. The transformation is mechanical and each site follows the same three-line pattern, but it spans seven C++ call sites in the crypto bindings and includes a header signature change whose callers must all be updated (I confirmed all three are). Per the approval guidelines, changes in crypto paths warrant a human look even when the diff is defensive, so I'm deferring rather than approving.

Other factors

The test follows the repo's harness rules closely: bunExe/bunEnv, await using on the spawn, Promise.all over stdout/stderr/exited, a combined-object toEqual, skipIf(totalmem() < 10 GiB) mirroring an existing large-string test's gate, and a per-test 30 s ceiling justified by the ~4 s debug-ASAN child. The comment explains why "q".repeat(2**30) is used over the usual Buffer.alloc(n, fill).toString() (half the peak memory, faster at this size). The PR description transparently scopes out two adjacent bugs (Bun::UTF8View and the 2^31-byte passphrase segfault) as separate reports and flags the expected merge conflict with the WebKit upgrade over characters() → legacyCStringPointer().

…valid address

checkIP throws ERR_INVALID_ARG_VALUE for a string that is not an IP address.
A string too long to convert to UTF-8 is not one either, so it takes the
same INVALID_NAME path and no longer returns undefined. The conversion moves
into JSX509Certificate::checkIP, which now takes a StringView.
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Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

Jarred-Sumner pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 15, 2026
… UTF-8 (#42798)

### Problem
- A non-ASCII string of 2^30 Latin-1 characters or more aborts the
process: `panic(main thread): abort() called`, exit 134, also inside
`try` / `catch`. Each API that reads it through `Bun::UTF8View` does
this, for example `x509.checkHost("\u00e9".repeat(2 ** 30))`. Fuzzing
found it, with no user report.
- `UTF8View` (`src/jsc/bindings/BunString.h:18`) called `utf8()`, which
is `tryGetUTF8()` plus `RELEASE_ASSERT`. It had no failure channel.

### Fix
- `UTF8View` has no public constructor. `UTF8View::tryCreate()` returns
`std::nullopt` when `tryGetUTF8()` fails, and an overload throws
`RangeError: Out of memory`, as #42202 and #42308 do.
- An 8-bit ASCII string is still borrowed, never copied. Each user
passes a pointer and a length. A `const char*` consumer always needs a
copy, and that case is not in this PR (Notes).
- These throw now: `new X509Certificate(string)`, `hkdf` / `hkdfSync`
(`salt`, `info`), `bun:sqlite` SQL text and string parameters, `new
Bun.CookieMap(string)`. `checkHost`, `checkEmail`,
`require.resolve.paths` and `Module._resolveLookupPaths` only look the
string up, so they answer "no match". Removed `keyFromString`,
`passphraseFromBufferSource`, `keyFromPublicString` (no caller).
- Verified: `test/js/bun/util/utf8-conversion-limit.test.ts`. The
unfixed build aborts at the first case. One row shows that an ASCII
string is not copied.

### Background
- A JSC string is Latin-1 (8-bit) or UTF-16, with no NUL terminator.
`UTF8View` borrows an 8-bit all-ASCII string and converts any other
string with WTF.
- WTF reserves 2 bytes per Latin-1 character and a buffer holds at most
2^31 - 1 bytes, so 2^30 Latin-1 characters fail. A 16-bit string fails
at a UTF-8 form of 2^31 bytes.
- JSC throws `RangeError: Out of memory` for a string that it cannot
create.

<details><summary>Notes</summary>

**Repro, on release 1.4.3 canary (09bb546, linux x64).** Each line
aborts on its own with exit 134, at 1.1 GB RSS in about 0.6 s.

```js
const crypto = require("node:crypto");
const { Database } = require("bun:sqlite");
const long = "\u00e9".repeat(2 ** 30); // Latin-1, not ASCII
const x509 = new crypto.X509Certificate(pem);
const db = new Database(":memory:");

x509.checkHost(long);
x509.checkEmail(long);
new crypto.X509Certificate(long);
crypto.hkdfSync("sha256", "key", long, "info", 8); // salt
crypto.hkdfSync("sha256", "key", "salt", long, 8); // info
crypto.hkdf("sha256", "key", long, "info", 8, () => {});
require.resolve.paths(long);
require("node:module")._resolveLookupPaths(long);
db.run(long);
db.prepare(long);
db.prepare("SELECT length(?)").get(long);
new Bun.CookieMap("a=%41" + long); // the value is converted only when the header has a "%"
```

An ASCII string of the same length is clean in all of them, because
`UTF8View` borrows it. A 16-bit string aborts too: 715,827,883 x U+0800
has a UTF-8 form of 2^31 + 1 bytes. With this PR all of these cases
throw or answer "no match" for that string as well. One character below
the limit (2^30 - 1 x U+00E9) still converts: `checkHost` returns
`undefined` after 8 s on release.

**Every `UTF8View` user, and what it does when the conversion fails**

| User | Now |
| --- | --- |
| `new X509Certificate(string)` (`JSX509Certificate.cpp`) | throws |
| `X509Certificate#checkHost`, `#checkEmail`
(`JSX509CertificatePrototype.cpp`) | return `undefined` |
| `hkdf`, `hkdfSync`: `salt`, `info` (`CryptoHkdf.cpp`) | throws |
| `Database#run`, `#exec`, `#prepare`, `#query`: SQL text
(`JSSQLStatement.cpp`) | throws |
| `bun:sqlite` string parameter (`JSSQLStatement.cpp` `rebindValue`) |
throws |
| `new Bun.CookieMap(string)`, `request.cookies` (`CookieMap.cpp`) |
`Exception { OutOfMemoryError }`, which both callers throw |
| `require.resolve.paths` (`JSCommonJSModule.cpp`),
`Module._resolveLookupPaths` (`NodeModuleModule.cpp`) | the request is
not a builtin, continue |
| `decodeURIComponentSIMD` (`bun:internal-for-testing`) | throws |
| `X509Certificate#validToDate`, `#validFromDate` | return `undefined`.
The string is the 24 characters that `ASN1_TIME_print` writes, so this
cannot happen. #42363 removes both uses. |
| native `WebSocket` `onMessage` (`WebSocket.cpp`, used by the Chrome
backend of `Bun.WebView`) | drops the message. The client fails a
message longer than `MAX_RECEIVE_MESSAGE_LENGTH` first (128 MiB,
`src/http_jsc/websocket_client.rs:57`, checked at `:813`). A compressed
message has the same bound (`MAX_DECOMPRESSED_SIZE`,
`websocket_client/WebSocketDeflate.rs:64`). So this cannot happen. |
| replay of queued Chrome commands over the pipe (`ChromeBackend.cpp`) |
rejects every pending promise of the transport |
| `keyFromString`, `passphraseFromBufferSource`, `keyFromPublicString` |
removed, no caller |

Two of these did not use `UTF8View` before. The `bun:sqlite` parameter
binding had its own copy of the same dispatch (borrow ASCII, else
`utf8()`). `Module._resolveLookupPaths` is the twin of
`require.resolve.paths` and called `utf8()` for the same builtin check.

**Not in this PR.** These call `String::utf8()` or `StringView::utf8()`
directly, not `UTF8View`. They abort for a string of 2^30 characters,
ASCII included.

| Parameter | Site | Owner |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `X509Certificate#checkIP(ip)` | `jsX509CertificateProtoFuncCheckIP` |
#42780 (throws `ERR_INVALID_ARG_VALUE`, as for the same string one
character shorter) |
| `hkdf(digest)` and the other digest, cipher and curve names |
`ncrypto.cpp` | #42780 |
| `hkdf(ikm)` as a string of 2^31 UTF-8 bytes | `CryptoHkdf.cpp`
`prepareKey` | #42187 |
| `process.execve` | `BunProcess.cpp` | #42308 |
| `Set-Cookie` header write | `CookieMap.cpp:20` | #42237 |
| `bun:sqlite` `new Database(filename)`, `serialize(name)`,
`loadExtension(path, entryPoint)`, `fileControl(name)`,
`setCustomSQLite(path)` | `JSSQLStatement.cpp:1208`, `1377`, `1428`,
`1430`, `1803`, `1955` | follow-up, with the 20 sites of `node:sqlite`
(`NodeSqlite.cpp`) |
| `Bun.Cookie` `expires` string | `Cookie.cpp:124`, `JSCookie.cpp:62` |
follow-up |
| `WebSocket` close reason, protocols | `WebSocket.cpp` | follow-up |
| Chrome backend pipe command | `ChromeBackend.h:211` | follow-up |

Most of them pass a `const char*` to a C API (`sqlite3_open_v2`,
`sqlite3_serialize`, `sqlite3_load_extension`, `X509_check_ip_asc`,
`EVP_get_digestbyname`). A WTF string has no NUL terminator
(`StringImpl::allocationSize` is `tailOffset + length * sizeof(T)`), so
that case always needs a copy, and the borrowed branch of `UTF8View`
cannot serve it. It stays on `tryGetUTF8()`. `src/jsc` and `src/runtime`
have about 100 `utf8()` call sites. Each needs a look: some pass a
pointer and a length and can move to `UTF8View`, which also saves the
copy of an ASCII string. That is a separate change.

**Related open PRs**
- #42187 edits `copyBufferOrString` in `CryptoHkdf.cpp` and keeps the
`UTF8View utf8(view);` line. The PR that merges second takes the
`tryCreate` form, a 3 line rebase.
- #42363 rewrites `validToDate` / `validFromDate` and drops their
`UTF8View`.
- #33312 adds 7 new `Bun::UTF8View(...)` constructor calls (clipboard).
After this PR they do not compile until they use `tryCreate`. That is
the purpose of the private constructor: a new user cannot skip the
failure case. An unchecked `tryCreate(s)->span()` still compiles.

**Test.** The length is what is under test, so the child holds a string
of 1 GiB, and a second one while the cookie header is joined (2.5 GB
peak). One child runs the 14 cases and takes 6 to 10 s in a debug ASAN
build. About 5 s of that is the last row, where the unoptimized build
scans 1 GiB for a non-ASCII byte. The test skips below 8 GiB of total
memory and carries a 30 s ceiling, like
`error-message-string-length-limit.test.ts`. A second test runs the same
APIs with `"café"` and `"café 😀"` to check that a string that converts
still gives the same result.

**The ASCII row.** `tryGetUTF8()` refuses every 8-bit string of 2^30
characters before it reads one (`StringImpl.h`
`tryGetUTF8ForCharacters`:
`isValidCapacityForVector<char8_t>(characters.size() * 2)`). So a
`UTF8View` that copied an ASCII string of that length reports `Out of
memory`. The row binds `"q".repeat(2 ** 30)` as a `bun:sqlite`
parameter. The bundled SQLite answers `string or blob too big` (its
limit is 1e9 bytes). The system SQLite that macOS loads takes up to 2
GiB and returns the length. The row accepts these two answers and no
other: each shows that SQLite got the string's buffer. The same
mechanism is why `Module._resolveLookupPaths("q".repeat(2 ** 30))`
aborts on `main`: it called `request.utf8()` to pass a pointer and a
length. It borrows now.

**Also ran (debug ASAN build):** `x509.test.ts`,
`x509-subclass.test.ts`, the vendored `test-crypto-x509.js`,
`test-crypto-hkdf.js`, `test-crypto-sign-verify.js`,
`test-crypto-key-objects.js`, `test-require-resolve.js`,
`hkdf-callback-null.test.ts`, `hkdf-zero-length.test.ts`,
`sqlite.test.js`, the four cookie suites,
`decodeURIComponentSIMD.test.ts`, `node-module-module.test.js`,
`resolve.test.ts`, `webview-chrome-pipe.test.ts`,
`webview-chrome-disconnect.test.ts`. The child script also ran with
`BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1`, with no report. In
`sqlite.test.js`, `#13082` times out on this machine's debug build
(about 6 s against the 5 s limit), with and without this change.

**Self-review: 6 concerns raised, 4 addressed.**
- Addressed: `checkHost` / `checkEmail` threw. They return `undefined`
now. The rule that they and `checkIP` in #42780 follow: a call reports
what it reports for the same string one character shorter. That string
is a name that matches no certificate.
- Addressed: the same 4 line throw block appeared 7 times. It is the
`tryCreate(globalObject, scope, view)` overload now.
- Addressed: the `bun:sqlite` parameter binding still aborted, through
its own copy of the dispatch.
- Addressed: the description named API surfaces as done. It names
parameters now, and the table above lists what is left, with an owner
for each row.
- Rejected: convert the six other `utf8()` calls of `JSSQLStatement.cpp`
here, through a new `Bun::tryUTF8`. They are direct `utf8()` callers
that need a NUL-terminated copy. They belong with the `node:sqlite`
sites in one change for that mechanism.
- Rejected: bound the conversion by `Bun::maxVectorSize` so that a test
can reach the failure with a small string. It would test a branch that
production never takes, and a crash fix needs the crashing input as its
fixture.

**Review.** The review asked that the two cases stay apart: a `const
char*` consumer (always a copy) and a pointer plus length consumer
(borrow an ASCII string). `UTF8View` is the second case only, before and
after this PR. Since the review: the comment on `UTF8View` says so, the
fields are `m_borrowed` and `m_converted`, and the ASCII row above
guards the borrow.

</details>

<!-- robobun:evidence:begin -->

---

**[human-review]** gate passed · iteration 0 · 16 files touched

<details><summary>fails on main (without fix)</summary>

```console
ASAN without fix: 1 FAILED
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" "test/js/bun/util/utf8-conversion-limit.test.ts"
bun test v1.4.3 (09bb546)

test/js/bun/util/utf8-conversion-limit.test.ts:
69 |       env: bunEnv,
70 |       stdout: "pipe",
71 |       stderr: "pipe",
72 |     });
73 |     const [stdout, stderr, exitCode] = await Promise.all([proc.stdout.text(), proc.stderr.text(), proc.exited]);
74 |     expect({ stdout: stdout.trim().split("\n"), stderr, exitCode }).toEqual({
                                                                         ^
error: expect(received).toEqual(expected)

  {
-   "exitCode": 0,
-   "stderr": "",
+   "exitCode": 134,
+   "stderr": 
+ "ASSERTION FAILED: expectedString
+ vendor/WebKit/Source/WTF/wtf/text/StringView.cpp(121) : CString WTF::StringView::utf8(ConversionMode) const
+ no stacktrace available"
+ ,
    "stdout": [
-     "X509Certificate#checkHost: returned undefined",
-     "X509Certificate#checkEmail: returned undefined",
-     "new X509Certificate: RangeError: Out of memory",
-     "hkdfSync salt: RangeError: Out of memory",
-     "hkdfSync info: RangeEr
... (truncated)

release without fix: 1 FAILED
bun test v1.4.3-canary.1 (09bb546)

test/js/bun/util/utf8-conversion-limit.test.ts:
69 |       env: bunEnv,
70 |       stdout: "pipe",
71 |       stderr: "pipe",
72 |     });
73 |     const [stdout, stderr, exitCode] = await Promise.all([proc.stdout.text(), proc.stderr.text(), proc.exited]);
74 |     expect({ stdout: stdout.trim().split("\n"), stderr, exitCode }).toEqual({
                                                                         ^
error: expect(received).toEqual(expected)

  {
-   "exitCode": 0,
-   "stderr": "",
+   "exitCode": 134,
+   "stderr": 
+ "============================================================
+ Bun Canary v1.4.3-canary.1 (09bb546) Linux x64
+ Linux Kernel v7.0.0 | glibc v2.41
+ CPU: sse42 popcnt avx avx2 avx512
+ Args: "/workspace/bun/build/release/bun" "-e" "\n  import { decodeURIComponentSIMD } from \"bun:internal-for-testing\";\n  import { Database } from \"bun:sqlite\";\n  import crypto from \"node:crypto\";\n  import Module"...
+ Features: Bun.stderr(2) bunfig jsc tsconfig 
+ Builtins: "bun:internal-for-testing" "bun:main" "bun:sqlite" "node:crypto" "node:module" 
+ 
+ Elapsed: 740ms | User: 198ms | Sys: 543ms
+ RSS: 1.12 
... (truncated)
```

</details>

<details><summary>passes on PR (with fix)</summary>

```console
ASAN with fix: all passed
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" "test/js/bun/util/utf8-conversion-limit.test.ts"
bun test v1.4.3 (09bb546)

test/js/bun/util/utf8-conversion-limit.test.ts:
(pass) a string whose UTF-8 form does not fit in a buffer is an error instead of an abort [3129.31ms]
(pass) a short Latin-1 string converts as before [70.38ms]
(pass) a short 16-bit string converts as before [10.22ms]

 3 pass
 0 fail
 3 expect() calls
Ran 3 tests across 1 file. [5.80s]
__F:0:S:0

release with fix: all passed
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped)
  target       linux-x64-gnu
  build type   Release
  build dir    ./build/release
  revision     40af339
  features     lto, baseline

23 deps, 131 codegen, 1176 objects in 698ms

ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[1/1254] mkdir codegen
[2/1254] mkdir stamps
[3/1254] mkdir pch
[4/1254] mkdir obj
[5/1254] install /workspace/bun
bun install v1.4.3-canary.1 (09bb546)

Checked 22 installs across 61 packages (no changes) [11.00ms]
[6/1254] install /workspace/bun/packages/bun-error
bun install v1.4.3-canary.1 (09bb546)

Checked 1 install across 2 packages (no changes) [4.00ms]
[7/1254] gen ErrorCode+*.h
[8/1254] install /workspace/bun/src/node-fallbacks
bun install v1.4.3-canary.1 (09bb546)

Checked 111 installs across 104 packages (no changes) [6.00ms]
[9/1254] gen .bind.ts → GeneratedBindings.cpp
[10/1254] fetch picohttpparser
[picohttpparser] up to date
[11/1254] fetch zlib
[zlib] up to date
[12/1254] gen bindgenv2
[13/1254] gen node-fallbacks/react-refresh.js
Bundled 1 module in 5ms

  react-refresh.js  4.81 KB  (entry point)

[14/1254] fetch libjpeg
... (truncated)
```

</details>

<details><summary>diff hotspot</summary>

```
src/jsc/bindings/BunString.cpp                  |   8 ++
 src/jsc/bindings/BunString.h                    |  52 ++++-----
 src/jsc/bindings/CookieMap.cpp                  |   6 +-
 src/jsc/bindings/JSCommonJSModule.cpp           |   6 +-
 src/jsc/bindings/JSX509Certificate.cpp          |   9 +-
 src/jsc/bindings/JSX509CertificatePrototype.cpp |  26 +++--
 src/jsc/bindings/decodeURIComponentSIMD.cpp     |   5 +-
 src/jsc/bindings/node/crypto/CryptoHkdf.cpp     |   5 +-
 src/jsc/bindings/node/crypto/CryptoUtil.cpp     |  76 --------------
 src/jsc/bindings/node/crypto/CryptoUtil.h       |   2 -
 src/jsc/bindings/node/crypto/JSVerify.cpp       |  36 -------
 src/jsc/bindings/sqlite/JSSQLStatement.cpp      |  22 ++--
 src/jsc/bindings/webcore/WebSocket.cpp          |   5 +-
 src/jsc/modules/NodeModuleModule.cpp            |  10 +-
 src/runtime/webview/ChromeBackend.cpp           |   8 +-
 test/js/bun/util/utf8-conversion-limit.test.ts  | 134 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 16 files changed, 233 insertions(+), 177 deletions(-)
```

</details>

**gate history** · 1 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 0

<details><summary>evidence per changed file</summary>

```
file                                             reads  edits  tests
src/jsc/bindings/BunString.cpp                       0      0     13
src/jsc/bindings/BunString.h                         3      2     13
src/jsc/bindings/CookieMap.cpp                       0      0     13
src/jsc/bindings/JSCommonJSModule.cpp                0      0     13
src/jsc/bindings/JSX509Certificate.cpp               0      0     13
src/jsc/bindings/JSX509CertificatePrototype.cpp      0      0     13
src/jsc/bindings/decodeURIComponentSIMD.cpp          0      0     13
src/jsc/bindings/node/crypto/CryptoHkdf.cpp          0      0     13
src/jsc/bindings/node/crypto/CryptoUtil.cpp          0      0     13
src/jsc/bindings/node/crypto/CryptoUtil.h            0      0     13
src/jsc/bindings/node/crypto/JSVerify.cpp            0      0     13
src/jsc/bindings/sqlite/JSSQLStatement.cpp           0      0     13
src/jsc/bindings/webcore/WebSocket.cpp               0      0     13
src/jsc/modules/NodeModuleModule.cpp                 0      0     13
src/runtime/webview/ChromeBackend.cpp                0      0     13
test/js/bun/util/utf8-conversion-limit.test.ts       1      1     13
```

</details>

<!-- robobun:evidence:end -->
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@robobun is this pr still needed now that 0ea0a56 is in main?

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Yes, it is still needed. 0ea0a56 (#42798) fixes a different helper.

I rebased the branch on main. There were no conflicts with #42798. I am running the new test against a build with main's src/ now, and I will put the result in the status comment above.

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