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Informational 20 Bitcoin

libjade: add gui support

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Daniel Newton

61/100 · Adequate
libjade: add gui support

Adds libjade/run_libjade_gui.sh which will run a local libjade instance
with a tkinter window. Includes coverage support for libjade builds.

Note that the libjade API to fetch the screen buffer is subject to
change in the future.

Co-authored-by: Jon Griffiths <jon_p_griffiths@yahoo.com>
✓ Subject identifies a change✓ Provides detailed explanatory context✓ Mentions testing or verification
The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a desktop GUI mode for testing the Jade hardware wallet firmware on a regular computer. It is a development/testing feature, not a change to the production firmware that runs on real Jade devices. The code introduces a new event-dispatching shim and lets a Python/Tkinter window drive the firmware's screen and buttons. There is no indication this fixes a security vulnerability; it is a tooling enhancement.

Recommended action

No immediate security action required. Treat this as a normal feature commit. If using the new GUI for automated testing, review the esp_event.c shim for robustness (memory allocation failures, thread safety, and handler map limits) before relying on it for security-critical test coverage. Production firmware builds are not affected.

Security signals we found

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New desktop-only GUI surface (Tkinter/Python) that calls into libjade via ctypes - only relevant to local test builds

02

New esp_event.c shim uses pthreads, mutexes, and a fixed-size wally_map (1000 entries) for event handler storage

03

Event queue items are heap-allocated and freed by the dispatcher; no size validation on event_data beyond copying the pointer

04

libjade_get_display_buffer returns a direct pointer to the emulated display buffer

05

libjade_handle_gui_event accepts integer event types and dispatches to gui_prev/gui_next/gui_front_click

06

CI mode (CONFIG_DEBUG_UNATTENDED_CI) remains ON by default, now explicitly controlled by CMake option

Risk score

Why this scored 20/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 3/25
Stealth signal 2/15
Affected reach 3/15
Confidence 7/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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