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boot update

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Authored by ww3512687

0/100 · Opaque
boot update
! Very short subject! 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 large firmware update for the Keystone 3 hardware wallet, primarily adding a bootloader update mechanism and hardening the USB stack. It introduces a way to overwrite the device's bootloader from a specially formatted region of flash memory, enables hardware-level flash encryption for production builds, and adds many bounds checks and validation routines to the USB device driver to prevent malformed host requests from crashing or confusing the device. The commit also removes the MD5 checksum code entirely and improves I2C and secure-element error handling.

Recommended action

Review the bootloader update protocol for supply-chain and downgrade risks: ensure the embedded bootloader image is signed (not just hashed) and that version anti-rollback checks are enforced before writing. Verify that the AES key/IV read from OTP cannot be extracted by production firmware and that the new USB hardening covers all class drivers. Test the boot-update path against malformed headers, truncated images, and flash-write failures. Confirm removal of MD5 does not break any remaining dependencies.

Security signals we found

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New bootloader self-update path from application flash with magic-number header, SHA-256 hash, and CRC32 verification

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Flash encryption enabled for production builds using OTP-derived AES-CBC key/IV

03

USB control endpoint hardening: request length validation, descriptor bounds checks, endpoint address validation, stall-on-invalid requests

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USB OUT endpoint receive path hardened against buffer overflows and NULL/oversized transfers

05

MSC SCSI layer LBA range check fixed to prevent integer overflow/wrap-around

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Removal of AUTO_REBOOT_AFTER_COPY_FILE MSC behavior that rebooted device after file copy

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I2C HAL now returns ATCA_COMM_FAIL on bus errors instead of ignoring return value

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ATECC608B KDF retry loop added for transient secure-element failures

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MD5 implementation removed from firmware

Risk score

Why this scored 57/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 18/30
Exploitability 12/25
Stealth signal 8/15
Affected reach 10/15
Confidence 6/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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