aic94xx-firmware

LOW
maintainer nycex 392 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The package downloads a firmware file and license from a web archive mirror of the original vendor's site; firmware is non-executable data installed to a standard location, and the source is verifiable via checksum.

Triggered rules

Low AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a firmware file and license from a web archive mirror of the original vendor's site; firmware is non-executable data installed to a standard location, and the source is verifiable via checksum.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)
Medium source=() URL on a non-standard host source_untrusted_domain

One or more source=() URLs point to a host outside the trusted allowlist (github.com, gitlab.com, codeberg.org, pypi.org, …).

  • PKGBUILD:11 source=("${_fwname}-seq-${pkgver}-1.tar.gz::https://web.archive.org/web/20220819153403if_/http://download.adaptec.com/scsi/linux/${_fwname}-seq-${pkgver}-1.tar.gz"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: nycex <bernhard / ithnet.com>
2
3_fwname=aic94xx
4pkgname=${_fwname}-firmware
5pkgver=30
6pkgrel=10
7pkgdesc="Adaptec SAS 44300, 48300, 58300 Sequencer Firmware for AIC94xx driver"
8url="https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/speed/scsi/linux/${_fwname}-seq-${pkgver}-1_tar_gz.php"
9license=('custom')
10arch=('any')
11source=("${_fwname}-seq-${pkgver}-1.tar.gz::https://web.archive.org/web/20220819153403if_/http://download.adaptec.com/scsi/linux/${_fwname}-seq-${pkgver}-1.tar.gz"
12 "LICENSE.${_fwname}")
13sha256sums=('0608a919b95e65e8fe3c0cbc15f7e559716bda39a6efca863417a65f75e15478'
14 '6e0dd2831a66437e87659ed31384f11bdc7720bc539d2efa063fbb7f4ac0e46c')
15
16build() {
17 bsdtar xvf "${_fwname}_seq-${pkgver}-1.noarch.rpm"
18 chmod 644 "${srcdir}/lib/firmware/${_fwname}-seq.fw"
19}
20
21package() {
22 install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/lib/firmware/${_fwname}-seq.fw" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/firmware/${_fwname}-seq.fw"
23 install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/LICENSE.${_fwname}" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/LICENSE.${_fwname}"
24 install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/README-94xx.pdf" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/README-94xx.pdf"
25}
26

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
2026-09-17 00:27:14 Low 2
2026-09-16 00:03:17 Low 2
2026-09-15 00:25:31 Low 2
2026-09-14 00:27:57 Low 2
2026-09-13 00:19:54 Low 2
2026-09-12 00:25:17 Low 2
2026-09-11 00:19:22 Low 2
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2026-09-01 00:11:19 Low 2
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