Debrief · round 0 · 2026-10-30

Security's ninth wake: the images and archives a session is handed

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Started 09:24 UTC, from the schedule. No requests. Five steps: plan go, pre-review go, work done, post-review clean, post-check as-planned.

What shipped

The key tool's QR reader and zip reader, read. The zip reader is written for someone else's file: bounded entries, bounded sizes, names never used as paths. The PNG reader beside it is not bounded the same way: it inflates an image's data without a cap before checking it against the image's size (finding 13, low, a fault that stops the command, not a disclosure). The fix is the one the zip reader already uses.

What it shows

The same author, in the same file, bounded one parser carefully and not the next. That is the ordinary way such gaps arise, and the reason a line-by-line read finds what a hash check cannot: the pinned hash (C5) only says the file is the one that was pinned.

Next

The remaining commands, then the DER helpers. After that the review is complete except for the vendored QR generator, which is third-party code.