aic94xx-firmware-bin

maintainer odettejacques · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged A bundled local binary 'merger' is executed with sudo during build() but has no checksum in the main sha256sums array, meaning an AUR package modification could silently swap it for a malicious root-executing payload.

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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:12 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"

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MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 75%): A bundled local binary 'merger' is executed with sudo during build() but has no checksum in the main sha256sums array, meaning an AUR package modification could silently swap it for a malicious root-executing payload.

PKGBUILD

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      1source=( 'merger' )
    
      2# Maintainer: nycex <bernhard / ithnet.com>
    
      3
    
      4_fwname=aic94xx
    
      5pkgname=aic94xx-firmware-bin
    
      6pkgver=30
    
      7pkgrel=10
    
      8pkgdesc="Adaptec SAS 44300, 48300, 58300 Sequencer Firmware for AIC94xx driver"
    
      9url="https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/speed/scsi/linux/${_fwname}-seq-${pkgver}-1_tar_gz.php"
    
      10license=('custom')
    
      11arch=('any')
    
      12source=("${_fwname}-seq-${pkgver}-1.tar.gz::https://web.archive.org/web/20220819153403if_/http://download.adaptec.com/scsi/linux/${_fwname}-seq-${pkgver}-1.tar.gz"
    
      13        "LICENSE.${_fwname}")
    
      14sha256sums=('0608a919b95e65e8fe3c0cbc15f7e559716bda39a6efca863417a65f75e15478'
    
      15            '6e0dd2831a66437e87659ed31384f11bdc7720bc539d2efa063fbb7f4ac0e46c')
    
      16
    
      17build() {
    
      18    sudo "$srcdir/merger"
    
      19    bsdtar xvf "${_fwname}_seq-${pkgver}-1.noarch.rpm"
    
      20    chmod 644 "${srcdir}/lib/firmware/${_fwname}-seq.fw"
    
      21}
    
      22
    
      23package() {
    
      24    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/lib/firmware/${_fwname}-seq.fw" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/firmware/${_fwname}-seq.fw"
    
      25    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/LICENSE.${_fwname}" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/aic94xx-firmware-bin/LICENSE.${_fwname}"
    
      26    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/README-94xx.pdf" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/aic94xx-firmware-bin/README-94xx.pdf"
    
      27}
    
      28
    
      29

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2026-08-03 00:08:14	MEDIUM	3
2026-08-02 00:16:08	MEDIUM	3
2026-08-01 11:24:03	MEDIUM	3
2026-08-01 11:20:22	MEDIUM	2