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OutOfMemoryError occurred when calling Utilities.splitIntoFramesg function

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
databases

Research direction

Start with com.google.firebase.database.utilities.Utilities.splitIntoFrames at Utilities.java:131 and reproduce the report using the UtilitiesFuzzerSplitIntoFrames PoC with the input "9." and frame size 0. Determine the expected handling for this input and verify that the resulting behavior no longer causes Java heap exhaustion.

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Description

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OutOfMemoryError occurred when calling Utilities.splitIntoFramesg function

Description

An OutOfMemoryError vulnerability exists in the Utilities.splitIntoFrames method in firebase-admin 9.2.0.

Error Log

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

	at java.base/java.lang.StringLatin1.newString(StringLatin1.java:715)
	at java.base/java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1879)
	at com.google.firebase.database.utilities.Utilities.splitIntoFrames(Utilities.java:131)
	at PoC.firebas_admin.UtilitiesFuzzerSplitIntoFrames.splitIntoFramesFuzzerTest(UtilitiesFuzzerSplitIntoFrames.java:9)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)
	at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:59)
	at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:12)
	at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:56)
	at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.InvokeMethod.evaluate(InvokeMethod.java:17)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:306)
	at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner$1.evaluate(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:100)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runLeaf(ParentRunner.java:366)
	at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:103)
	at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:63)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$4.run(ParentRunner.java:331)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:79)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:329)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$100(ParentRunner.java:66)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:293)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:306)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:413)
	at org.junit.runner.JUnitCore.run(JUnitCore.java:137)
	at com.intellij.junit4.JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.startRunnerWithArgs(JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.java:69)
	at com.intellij.rt.junit.IdeaTestRunner$Repeater$1.execute(IdeaTestRunner.java:38)
	at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.TestsRepeater.repeat(TestsRepeater.java:11)
	at com.intellij.rt.junit.IdeaTestRunner$Repeater.startRunnerWithArgs(IdeaTestRunner.java:35)
	at com.intellij.rt.junit.JUnitStarter.prepareStreamsAndStart(JUnitStarter.java:235)
	at com.intellij.rt.junit.JUnitStarter.main(JUnitStarter.java:54)

PoC

        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.google.firebase</groupId>
            <artifactId>firebase-admin</artifactId>
            <version>9.2.0</version>
        </dependency>
import org.junit.Test;
import com.google.firebase.database.utilities.*;
public class UtilitiesFuzzerSplitIntoFrames {
    @Test
    public void splitIntoFramesFuzzerTest() {
        try {
            String[] result = Utilities.splitIntoFrames("9.", 0);
        } catch (Exception e) {
        }
    }
}
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