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Fix QR scanner setup and sleep handling

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What the developer wrote

Authored by scgbckbone

45/100 · Thin
Fix QR scanner setup and sleep handling
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit fixes several bugs in how the COLDCARD Q1 hardware wallet talks to its built-in QR-code scanner. The changes make scanner startup more reliable, prevent stale 'go to sleep' commands from accidentally stopping a scan that just started, and recover better when commands time out or the user cancels. The changelog calls these 'Scanner robustness' fixes. There is no direct evidence this is a security vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker; it is primarily a reliability/stability improvement. However, because the QR scanner is used to read sensitive data such as Bitcoin transactions and seed backups, any crash or misbehavior during scanning could in theory affect user funds or cause denial of service, so the change has defensive-security value.

Recommended action

Treat as a reliability fix rather than an urgent security patch. Include in normal firmware release testing. Users who rely on the QR scanner for critical operations should update when a release containing this commit is available. No immediate incident response is indicated by the diff alone.

Security signals we found

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Hardware peripheral reset line held in asserted state (potential wake/power issue)

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Async sleep command could race with newly started scan (state-management bug)

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CancelledError from asyncio.wait_for_ms could strand setup task

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Scanner setup failures previously left module dead until reboot

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ChangeLog labels changes as 'Scanner robustness' bugfixes

Risk score

Why this scored 32/100

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