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Low 27 Bitcoin

Move the wallet confirmation stage out of the handler's frame

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Salvatore Ingala

73/100 · Adequate
Move the wallet confirmation stage out of the handler's frame

By not inlining the called functions, the memory occupation can be
substantially improved, as a lot of the data used during validation
are no longer needed during rendering and UI.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit refactors the Ledger Bitcoin app's wallet registration code so that the user-confirmation step runs in a separate function that the compiler is told not to inline. The stated goal is to reduce peak stack memory use by freeing large validation buffers before the UI rendering phase. The change itself is a defensive hardening/optimization patch; there is no direct evidence in the commit that it fixes an exploitable vulnerability.

Recommended action

Treat as a routine hardening/refactor commit. Review whether the new function boundary preserves all error paths and that pointers passed to confirm_and_register_wallet() remain valid for the callee's lifetime. No urgent security action is indicated by the diff alone.

Security signals we found

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Stack memory layout hardening via noinline separation of validation and UI phases

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Reduction of peak stack footprint for deeply recursive policy validation

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Refactor only: no change to validation rules, cryptographic checks, or UI logic

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Potential mitigation class: stack overflow / memory exhaustion during wallet policy registration

Risk score

Why this scored 27/100

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