aic94xx-firmware

maintainer nycex · 392 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	LOW	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	LOW	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	LOW	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	LOW	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	2