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review cardano

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Authored by ww3512687

18/100 · Opaque
review cardano
✓ Subject identifies a change! Too few words to establish purpose! No meaningful explanatory body! Opaque security-relevant change
The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit is a code-review hardening pass for the Cardano wallet module in the Keystone 3 firmware. It replaces many Rust `.unwrap()` calls with proper error handling, adds bounds checks for derivation paths and public keys, zeroizes sensitive seed/entropy buffers after use, and fixes a seed-length bug for BIP39 vs SLIP39 accounts. Most changes reduce the chance that malformed transaction data or missing key material causes a crash or leaks secrets, but the commit is broad and includes many test additions, so it is better characterized as defensive cleanup than a single fixed vulnerability.

Recommended action

Treat this as a defensive hardening commit. Review the remaining `.unwrap()`/`.expect()` sites in the Cardano module and other chains, ensure all FFI-extracted secret buffers are zeroized consistently, and verify that `GetCurrentAccountSeedLen()` is used everywhere seed length is computed. Run the new unit tests and perform fuzzing on Cardano transaction parsing/signing inputs. No emergency patch is indicated, but the seed-length fix should be validated against BIP39 and SLIP39 account creation tests.

Security signals we found

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Removal of numerous `.unwrap()` calls in Cardano parsing/signing paths

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Addition of `zeroize()` on entropy/seed buffers after FFI extraction

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Fix of seed length selection for BIP39 vs SLIP39 in public-info generation

04

Clearing of sensitive C strings before `free_simple_response_c_char`

05

Bounds and error handling added for derivation-path components and key hashes

06

Global mutable pointer `xpub` renamed to `g_xpub` to reduce shadowing/confusion

Risk score

Why this scored 51/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 12/30
Exploitability 10/25
Stealth signal 8/15
Affected reach 10/15
Confidence 7/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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