aic94xx-firmware-bin

MEDIUM
maintainer odettejacques 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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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.

Triggered rules

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"
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

1 offending line(s) highlighted
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
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