deb2targz

maintainer fordprefect · 238 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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

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      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)	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