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ota: initial refactor of ota processing

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Jon Griffiths

68/100 · Adequate
ota: initial refactor of ota processing

Push all state into the ota context struct, allocate it from the heap
and free it consistently on process exit. Use the context to simplify
error handling rather than forcing callers to maintain their own external
context variables.

Share the initial message processing and ota setup code between the
full and delta ota tasks since its almost completely identical.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit is a code cleanup that rewrites how the Blockstream Jade hardware wallet handles firmware updates. It moves all update-related state into a single heap-allocated structure and makes the cleanup logic more consistent. The change itself is a refactor, not an obvious security fix, but it touches sensitive firmware-update code where mistakes can have serious consequences. There is no direct evidence in the commit message or diff that a specific vulnerability was being fixed.

Recommended action

Treat as a normal refactor with security-critical side effects. Review the new unified `ota_init()` and `ota_free()` paths for memory leaks, double-free, use-after-free, and partition-state inconsistencies. Run targeted tests for full OTA, delta OTA, and error/abort paths. No immediate incident response is warranted absent additional disclosure.

Security signals we found

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Refactor of firmware-update (OTA) code, a high-privilege security boundary

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Heap allocation of OTA context with registered cleanup callback

03

Consolidation of duplicated input parsing between full and delta OTA paths

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Removal of separate `ota_end_called` boolean in favor of clearing `ota_handle`

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No vendor disclosure, CVE, researcher credit, or security-relevance statement present

Risk score

Why this scored 32/100

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