cx23885-firmware

maintainer TheChickenMan · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads firmware and a script from a personal domain to extract and install non-executable firmware files; the worst case of a swapped source is limited to firmware tampering, not code execution, and the source is plausibly project-specific.

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 firmware and a script from a personal domain to extract and install non-executable firmware files; the worst case of a swapped source is limited to firmware tampering, not code execution, and the source is plausibly project-specific.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:11 source=('http://steventoth.net/linux/hvr1800/HVR-12x0-14x0-17x0_1_25_25271_WHQL.zip'

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer:   M.Reynolds <blackboxnetworkproject@gmail.com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=cx23885-firmware
    
      4pkgver=2016.04.16
    
      5pkgrel=2
    
      6pkgdesc="Hauppauge hvr1800 tv-tuner card firmware."
    
      7arch=('any')
    
      8url="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure/46978"
    
      9license=('custom')
    
      10depends=('linux-firmware')
    
      11source=('http://steventoth.net/linux/hvr1800/HVR-12x0-14x0-17x0_1_25_25271_WHQL.zip'
    
      12        'http://steventoth.net/linux/hvr1800/extract.sh'
    
      13        'http://steventoth.net/linux/hvr1800/readme.txt')
    
      14sha256sums=('ccbe3bc8b8545ecf00cf3fc47af1b33f312a6f2e873a3e29ce1e8b82adef49d9'
    
      15            '8c231e54c08920b144df44017db111835c557fca7c4082c412eb6fa9d413be5a'
    
      16            'b6d27d2e6c6d1101556ede4539d672ba6b780462a171a2f9f445a09107228285')
    
      17
    
      18build() {
    
      19    cd "$srcdir"
    
      20    sh extract.sh
    
      21}
    
      22
    
      23package() {
    
      24    cd "$srcdir"
    
      25
    
      26    _systemdbasedir="$pkgdir/usr/lib/firmware"
    
      27    install -Dm644 v4l-cx23885-enc.fw "$_systemdbasedir/v4l-cx23885-enc.fw"
    
      28
    
      29    # The below file is owned by the package linux-firmware and so should not be extracted
    
      30    # install -Dm644 v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw "$_systemdbasedir/v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw"
    
      31}
    
      32

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