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Add sanity checks on older(n)

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Salvatore Ingala

45/100 · Thin
Add sanity checks on older(n)
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds safety checks to the Ledger Bitcoin app so that the 'older(n)' time-lock feature can only use values that actually have meaning under Bitcoin's consensus rules. Before this fix, a user could be shown a wallet policy with a value like older(65536), which looks like a real time-lock but behaves like no time-lock at all. That could trick a user into believing funds are locked when they are not. The patch rejects such misleading values.

Recommended action

Treat as a security-hardening commit. Review whether the same validation should be applied to other relative-timelock constructs (e.g., after() or similar absolute/relative locktime nodes) and ensure the Ledger app's UI does not display misleading locktime values. No immediate incident response is indicated, but the change should be included in release notes as a safety improvement.

Security signals we found

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Input validation added for relative timelock argument

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Comment explicitly describes dangerous equivalence (older(65536) behaves as older(0))

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References upstream Bitcoin Core hardening PR #33135

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Validation forces unused consensus bits to zero per BIP-68/BIP-112

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Patch is defensive hardening rather than a full bug fix

Risk score

Why this scored 62/100

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