capsimage

maintainer Solskogen · 4 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads two sources: (1) a source archive from kryoflux.com (the official KryoFlux/SPS vendor site) and (2) a pre-built binary tarball from softpres.org (the Software Preservation Society, which is the organization behind the IPF format and directly affiliated with KryoFlux). softpres.org is the legitimate upstream for the CAPS/IPF library. The pre-built binary from softpres.org (ipflib42) is only used for compatibility header files (*.h) copied in the package() function — it is not executed during build or installed as an executable/library. The actual library is built from source (the kryoflux.com zip). Both sources have pinned sha256sums. The concern is that softpres.org is a lesser-known host, but it is the legitimate upstream organization, and the binary content from it is only used for header files (pure data), not executed code. This is low risk: slightly non-standard sourcing but not a genuine supply-chain execution threat.

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 75%): The PKGBUILD downloads two sources: (1) a source archive from kryoflux.com (the official KryoFlux/SPS vendor site) and (2) a pre-built binary tarball from softpres.org (the Software Preservation Society, which is the organization behind the IPF format and directly affiliated with KryoFlux). softpres.org is the legitimate upstream for the CAPS/IPF library. The pre-built binary from softpres.org (ipflib42) is only used for compatibility header files (*.h) copied in the package() function — it is not executed during build or installed as an executable/library. The actual library is built from source (the kryoflux.com zip). Both sources have pinned sha256sums. The concern is that softpres.org is a lesser-known host, but it is the legitimate upstream organization, and the binary content from it is only used for header files (pure data), not executed code. This is low risk: slightly non-standard sourcing but not a genuine supply-chain execution threat.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:13 source=("https://www.kryoflux.com/download/spsdeclib_${pkgver}_source.zip"
PKGBUILD:14 'ipflib42_linux-x86_64.tar.gz::http://www.softpres.org/_media/files:ipflib42_linux-x86_64.tar.gz')

PKGBUILD

2 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Luis Martinez <luis dot martinez at disroot dot org>
    
      2# Contributor:  Oliver Jaksch <arch-aur@com-in.de>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=capsimage
    
      5pkgver=5.1
    
      6pkgrel=2
    
      7pkgdesc="Library to access IPF and CTR files"
    
      8arch=('x86_64')
    
      9url="https://www.kryoflux.com/"
    
      10license=('custom:SPS License')
    
      11depends=('gcc-libs')
    
      12provides=('libcapsimage.so=5-64')
    
      13source=("https://www.kryoflux.com/download/spsdeclib_${pkgver}_source.zip"
    
      14        'ipflib42_linux-x86_64.tar.gz::http://www.softpres.org/_media/files:ipflib42_linux-x86_64.tar.gz')
    
      15sha256sums=('e60b756fa68c5fe073a28c618a0ec06220ef185e2a3c59e4a8d001c930f693d1'
    
      16            'ea139673e29a36dc3be7ba916628b5c8a03353bd68be4d346daed803d472ddf3')
    
      17
    
      18prepare() {
    
      19	bsdtar -xf capsimg_source_linux_macosx.zip
    
      20}
    
      21
    
      22build() {
    
      23	cd capsimg_source_linux_macosx/CAPSImg
    
      24	chmod +x configure
    
      25	./configure --prefix=/usr
    
      26	make
    
      27}
    
      28
    
      29package() {
    
      30	cd capsimg_source_linux_macosx/CAPSImg
    
      31	# some applications expect the object files in /usr/lib/caps ...
    
      32	install -Dm644 "libcapsimage.so.5.1" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/caps/libcapsimage.so"
    
      33	ln -s "libcapsimage.so" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/caps/libcapsimage.so.5"
    
      34	ln -s "libcapsimage.so" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/caps/libcapsimage.so.5.1"
    
      35	# ... but some others in /usr/lib
    
      36	ln -s "caps/libcapsimage.so" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libcapsimage.so"
    
      37	ln -s "caps/libcapsimage.so" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libcapsimage.so.5"
    
      38	ln -s "caps/libcapsimage.so" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libcapsimage.so.5.1"
    
      39
    
      40	install -Dm644 "../Core/CommonTypes.h" "${pkgdir}/usr/include/caps/CommonTypes.h"
    
      41	cp ../LibIPF/*.h "${pkgdir}/usr/include/caps/"
    
      42
    
      43	# some header files from 4.2 for compatibilty
    
      44	cp --no-preserve=mode ${srcdir}/x86_64-linux-gnu-capsimage/include/caps/*.h "${pkgdir}/usr/include/caps/"
    
      45}
    
      46

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