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Reject invalid Zcash display totals

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Adam Tucker

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Reject invalid Zcash display totals
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This update fixes how a Keystone hardware wallet calculates the on-screen totals for Zcash transactions. Previously, the firmware used plain addition that could silently overflow or accept impossible totals (for example, showing more change than was sent, or more money leaving the wallet than entered it). Such a malformed transaction could make the user approve a transfer that does not match reality. The patch now rejects those cases before anything is shown for signing.

Recommended action

Treat this as a security-hardening fix and include it in the next firmware release. Users signing Zcash transactions should upgrade once available. No immediate external mitigation is needed because exploitation requires presenting a crafted PCZT to the device.

Security signals we found

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Integer overflow in transaction value display logic

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Unchecked arithmetic could produce misleading transfer/fee amounts shown to the user

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Imbalance between inputs, outputs, and change not previously rejected

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Patch adds explicit checked arithmetic and error propagation

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Vendor changelog explicitly describes the change as rejecting invalid display totals

Risk score

Why this scored 60/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 18/30
Exploitability 12/25
Stealth signal 10/15
Affected reach 8/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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