arrow-usb-blaster

LOW

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

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Why flagged

The package downloads a source archive from a project-associated but non-whitelisted host; however, it builds and installs a driver from the official project's distribution point, with no evidence of malicious intent or remote code execution.

Triggered rules

Low AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a source archive from a project-associated but non-whitelisted host; however, it builds and installs a driver from the official project's distribution point, with no evidence of malicious intent or remote code execution.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:18 source=("https://shop.trenz-electronic.de/trenzdownloads/Trenz_Electronic/Software/Drivers/Arrow_USB_Programmer/Arrow_USB_Programmer_${_majver}/${_archive}.zip")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Martin Thierer <thierer@web.de>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=arrow-usb-blaster
    
      4pkgver=2.5.1
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc='Intel Quartus Driver for Arrow USB JTAG Programmer'
    
      7url='https://wiki.trenz-electronic.de/display/PD/Arrow+USB+Programmer'
    
      8license=('unknown')
    
      9arch=('x86_64')
    
      10backup=('etc/arrow_usb_blaster.conf')
    
      11depends=('quartus-free-quartus')
    
      12options=('!strip')
    
      13# Even https://github.com/ArrowElectronics/AnalogMAX/wiki/Arrow-USB-Programmer
    
      14# in what seems to be an official Arrow repository links to Trenz Electronic
    
      15# so that's apparently the standard download location.
    
      16_archive="Arrow_USB_Programmer_${pkgver}_linux64"
    
      17_majver=`echo ${pkgver} | cut -d '.' -f 1-2`
    
      18source=("https://shop.trenz-electronic.de/trenzdownloads/Trenz_Electronic/Software/Drivers/Arrow_USB_Programmer/Arrow_USB_Programmer_${_majver}/${_archive}.zip")
    
      19md5sums=('2d93ae613ff4ebb6a2d71fc3dbfad120')
    
      20
    
      21prepare() {
    
      22  cd "${srcdir}/${_archive}"
    
      23
    
      24  # extract udev rules from README
    
      25  if [[ $(csplit --suppress-matched README '/^===8</' '{1}' | wc -l) != 3 ]]
    
      26  then
    
      27    echo "Error extracting udev rules from README!"
    
      28    return 1
    
      29  fi
    
      30
    
      31  # put the TckFrequency option behind a comment to keep the default
    
      32  sed -i 's/^\(TckFrequency.*\)/#\1/' arrow_usb_blaster.conf
    
      33}
    
      34
    
      35package() {
    
      36  cd "${srcdir}/${_archive}"
    
      37
    
      38  # find the directory where Quartus is installed
    
      39  _quartus=$(pacman -Qlq quartus-free-quartus | grep "quartus/linux64/$")
    
      40  if [[ ${_quartus} && -d ${_quartus} ]]
    
      41  then
    
      42    echo "Found Quartus install directory ${_quartus}"
    
      43  else
    
      44    echo "Quartus install directory not found."
    
      45    return 1
    
      46  fi
    
      47
    
      48  install -D -m755 -t ${pkgdir}/${_quartus} libjtag_hw_arrow.so
    
      49  install -D -m644 -t ${pkgdir}/etc arrow_usb_blaster.conf
    
      50  install -D -m644 xx01 ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/51-arrow-usb-blaster.rules
    
      51}
    
      52

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2026-09-17 00:27:14	Low	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Low	2
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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