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bugfix: harden callgate buffer bounds

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What the developer wrote

Authored by scgbckbone

45/100 · Thin
bugfix: harden callgate buffer bounds
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit fixes a buffer-validation bug in the COLDCARD Mk4 bootloader's secure callgate. The old code checked memory ranges using simple addition (address + length), which can overflow and trick the device into treating an attacker-controlled buffer as safe. The patch replaces those checks with subtraction-based math that cannot overflow, and also rejects negative input lengths. A security review by Karma-X is credited with the finding.

Recommended action

Treat this as a security fix and include it in the next firmware release. Users on Mk4 should update when the release is available. Developers should audit other bootloader callgates for similar pointer-arithmetic overflow patterns and consider static analysis for unsigned-integer wraparound in bounds checks.

Security signals we found

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Integer overflow in pointer+bounds arithmetic

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Out-of-range memory access through trusted callgate

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Bootloader-level input validation bypass

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Negative length accepted as valid input

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Third-party security review finding credited (Karma-X)

Risk score

Why this scored 70/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 22/30
Exploitability 15/25
Stealth signal 10/15
Affected reach 12/15
Confidence 7/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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