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refactor(core): improve internal representation of protobuf definitions

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Authored by cepetr

62/100 · Adequate
refactor(core): improve internal representation of protobuf definitions

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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit is a code cleanup that changes how Trezor firmware internally labels 32-bit versus 64-bit integer fields in its protobuf handling. It does not add or remove security checks by itself, but it makes the type system more precise so that future integer-overflow mistakes are harder to introduce. The change is described by the author as a refactor with no changelog entry.

Recommended action

Treat as a hardening/refactor commit. Review whether the new 32-bit/64-bit split is applied consistently across all generated protobuf definitions and whether any existing message definitions rely on implicit 64-bit behavior for fields now tagged as 32-bit. No immediate security patch is indicated by the diff alone.

Security signals we found

01

Explicit width-aware integer handling in protobuf varint encode/decode

02

Added overflow checks for 32-bit and 64-bit varint boundaries in unit tests

03

Refactor of internal type tags; no new user-facing feature

Risk score

Why this scored 30/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 5/30
Exploitability 5/25
Stealth signal 5/15
Affected reach 5/15
Confidence 7/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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