deb2targz

LOW
maintainer fordprefect 238 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
View on AUR
Why flagged

The source is a script from a personal domain, but it is the project's own source being patched and installed; the worst case of a swapped source is a malicious script, but no remote code execution or data exfiltration is present in the build process.

Triggered rules

Low AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 95%): The source is a script from a personal domain, but it is the project's own source being patched and installed; the worst case of a swapped source is a malicious script, but no remote code execution or data exfiltration is present in the build process.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:10 url="http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/deb/deb2targz"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Joeran "chepaz" <mx-bounce at gmx dot de>
2# Contributor: Michael "mbostwick" <mbostwick89 at gmail dot com>
3# Contributor: Vasil Yonkov <bustervill at gmail dot com>
4
5pkgname=deb2targz
6pkgver=0.1
7pkgrel=7
8pkgdesc="convert a Debian Linux .deb file to a .tar.gz"
9arch=('any')
10url="http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/deb/deb2targz"
11license=('unknown')
12depends=('perl')
13source=('http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/deb/deb2targz' 'deb2targz-any-data.patch')
14
15sha256sums=('f597319db098a9d6b5199e39b8a9ced0973d9ee84927286de4d5816d8e76a44b'
16 'f4a5404ee9f98bba948e83201832332494997b7e0b804c6f7572aa6f5c31a358')
17
18build() {
19 patch --follow-symlinks -i $srcdir/deb2targz-any-data.patch $srcdir/deb2targz
20}
21
22package() {
23 install -Dm755 deb2targz $pkgdir/usr/bin/deb2targz
24}
25
26# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
27

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
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

Report a package

Reports go to the AURWatch maintainer (one person) and are read by hand. No login required.

0 / 4000
Your suggestion