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eth: harmonize large data warnings for transactions and typed messages

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Tomas Vrba

73/100 · Adequate
eth: harmonize large data warnings for transactions and typed messages

Adjust wording in transaction signing so warnings and truncating logic
match the newly implemented approach in sign_typed_msg.rs

Co-Authored-By: Marko Bencun <marko@shiftcrypto.ch>
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit changes how the BitBox02 hardware wallet warns users about very large Ethereum transaction data and typed messages. Previously, large transaction data was shown only as a byte count with the message 'too large to display.' Now the device shows a preview of the actual hex data (up to the screen limit, with a '...' truncation indicator) and adds a warning screen saying the value is too large to display in full. The change also reuses the same truncation logic already used for EIP-712 typed messages, so both flows behave consistently. The commit does not fix a vulnerability, but it improves the user's ability to inspect what they are signing.

Recommended action

Treat as a routine UX/consistency improvement. Reviewers should verify that the preview byte cap calculation correctly accounts for the prefix length in all call sites and that reusing the precomputed hash does not skip any validation step present in the original two-pass flow. No urgent security action is indicated.

Security signals we found

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UI warning consistency change for large Ethereum data

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Shared preview/truncation logic between eth transaction and typed-message signing

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Streaming data producer now captures a bounded preview while hashing

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Transaction hash pre-computed during verification to avoid duplicate host chunking

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No cryptographic, memory-safety, or authorization change identified

Risk score

Why this scored 35/100

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