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ui: reduce stack usage during mnemonic verification

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Authored by Jon Griffiths

60/100 · Adequate
ui: reduce stack usage during mnemonic verification
✓ Specific, descriptive subject✓ Names a concrete action or component✓ Mentions testing or verification! No meaningful explanatory body
The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit refactors how a wallet's secret recovery phrase (mnemonic) is handled on screen during verification. Instead of keeping an array of direct memory pointers to each word, it now stores offsets into the original phrase buffer. The stated goal is to reduce stack memory usage. The change also makes the code treat the mnemonic as read-only ('const') in more places, which is a defensive improvement. There is no direct evidence in the commit of an exploitable vulnerability being fixed, but reducing stack pressure and avoiding extra pointers to secret data is a sensible hardening measure.

Recommended action

Treat as a routine hardening/refactoring change. Reviewers may optionally verify that the offset arithmetic cannot overflow and that the mnemonic buffer remains null-terminated after separator replacement, but the diff itself does not indicate an active vulnerability.

Security signals we found

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Reduced stack-allocated pointer array for sensitive mnemonic data

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Increased use of const-correctness for mnemonic buffer

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Defensive assertion added: `len < 16384u` in `change_mnemonic_word_separator`

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No explicit security bug or CVE referenced in commit or supplied materials

Risk score

Why this scored 29/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 8/30
Exploitability 4/25
Stealth signal 3/15
Affected reach 5/15
Confidence 6/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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