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test: add option for the simulator to write to file.

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Nikolas De Giorgis

95/100 · Strong
test: add option for the simulator to write to file.

If the env variable FAKE_MEMORY_FILEPATH is provided, the simulator will
write to file using three different files:

- ${FAKE_MEMORY_FILEPATH}_shared
- ${FAKE_MEMORY_FILEPATH}_app
- ${FAKE_MEMORY_FILEPATH}_eeprom

mimicking the behaviour used when reading/writing to memory.

This allows us to re-launch the simulator after making changes in the
BBApp (e.g. renaming the device, accounts etc) while testing, simulating
the effect that unplugging/replugging a device would have.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a test-only feature to the BitBox02 firmware simulator that lets it save and load its pretend device memory from files on disk. It is meant to help developers test things like renaming a device without restarting from scratch. The change only affects simulator/test code, not real hardware wallets.

Recommended action

No security response required. As a code-quality suggestion, the simulator code should check return values of fseek/fwrite/fread and consider caching the getenv result to avoid TOCTOU issues in test environments.

Security signals we found

01

New file I/O in test-only fake memory implementation

02

Unchecked fseek/fwrite/fread return values

03

Repeated getenv calls for the same environment variable

04

Fixed-size 512-byte path buffer with snprintf length check

05

No security claims or fixes in commit message or changelog

Risk score

Why this scored 22/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 3/25
Stealth signal 2/15
Affected reach 3/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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