android-x86-pie

LOW

maintainer hayao 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

OSDN.net (formerly SourceForge Japan) is a legitimate open-source hosting platform and is actually the official distribution host for Android-x86 project releases. The URL pattern matches the real Android-x86 project page (projects/android-x86). The RPM is the official upstream release artifact from the Android-x86 project, not a personal or unofficial build. Using 'SKIP' for checksums is sloppy and means integrity is not verified at build time, but this is a packaging quality issue rather than an active supply-chain attack. The package installs a QEMU wrapper binary and Android system image files — these are executed/used at runtime but come from the legitimate upstream project host. The main concern is the missing checksum verification, which is a low-severity packaging deficiency, not a medium supply-chain risk.

Triggered rules

Low AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 82%): OSDN.net (formerly SourceForge Japan) is a legitimate open-source hosting platform and is actually the official distribution host for Android-x86 project releases. The URL pattern matches the real Android-x86 project page (projects/android-x86). The RPM is the official upstream release artifact from the Android-x86 project, not a personal or unofficial build. Using 'SKIP' for checksums is sloppy and means integrity is not verified at build time, but this is a packaging quality issue rather than an active supply-chain attack. The package installs a QEMU wrapper binary and Android system image files — these are executed/used at runtime but come from the legitimate upstream project host. The main concern is the missing checksum verification, which is a low-severity packaging deficiency, not a medium supply-chain risk.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:28 "android-x86-9.0-r2.i686.rpm::https://osdn.net/projects/android-x86/downloads/71931/android-x86-9.0-r2.i686.rpm/"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintaoner: Yamada Hayao <development@fascode.net>
    
      2
    
      3android_ver="9.0"
    
      4android_codename="pie"
    
      5android_revision="r2"
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7
    
      8pkgname="android-x86-${android_codename}"
    
      9pkgver="${android_revision}"
    
      10pkgdesc="This is a project to port Android open source project to x86 platform."
    
      11arch=('any')
    
      12url="https://www.android-x86.org/"
    
      13license=('Apache')
    
      14depends=()
    
      15makedepends=()
    
      16
    
      17install="${pkgname}.install"
    
      18
    
      19backup=(
    
      20    "android-${android_ver}-${android_revision}/initrd.img"
    
      21    "android-${android_ver}-${android_revision}/kernel"
    
      22    "android-${android_ver}-${android_revision}/ramdisk.img"
    
      23    "android-${android_ver}-${android_revision}/system.sfs"
    
      24)
    
      25
    
      26# i686
    
      27source_i686=(
    
      28    "android-x86-9.0-r2.i686.rpm::https://osdn.net/projects/android-x86/downloads/71931/android-x86-9.0-r2.i686.rpm/"
    
      29)
    
      30md5sums_i686=('SKIP')
    
      31
    
      32#x86_64
    
      33source_x86_64=(
    
      34    "android-x86-9.0-r2.x86_64.rpm::https://osdn.net/projects/android-x86/downloads/71931/android-x86-9.0-r2.x86_64.rpm/"
    
      35)
    
      36md5sums_x86_64=('SKIP')
    
      37
    
      38
    
      39package() {
    
      40    install -D -m 755 "${srcdir}/usr/bin/qemu-android" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/qemu-android-${android_codename}"
    
      41
    
      42    local file
    
      43    for file in "${srcdir}/android-${android_ver}-${android_revision}/"*; do
    
      44        install -D -m 755 "${file}" "${pkgdir}/android-${android_ver}-${android_revision}/$(basename "${file}")"
    
      45    done
    
      46}
    
      47

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
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
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Low	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Low	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Low	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Low	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Low	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Low	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Low	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Low	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Low	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Low	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Low	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Low	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Low	2