dell-idractools

LOW

maintainer 0x2501 4 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The package downloads source files and a signature from Dell's official dl.dell.com domain, which is plausibly the project's own release infrastructure; the files are a signed tarball and license, with one having a verifiable checksum and the other skipped but intended for GPG verification; the build extracts RPMs from the official vendor source, which is normal for repackaging vendor tools, and installs them directly; worst case of a swapped source is malicious code from Dell, but the source is official and not from a swappable host like personal cloud storage.

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-2507) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads source files and a signature from Dell's official dl.dell.com domain, which is plausibly the project's own release infrastructure; the files are a signed tarball and license, with one having a verifiable checksum and the other skipped but intended for GPG verification; the build extracts RPMs from the official vendor source, which is normal for repackaging vendor tools, and installs them directly; worst case of a swapped source is malicious code from Dell, but the source is official and not from a swappable host like personal cloud storage.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:17 source=("https://dl.dell.com/${_folder_gpg}/1/Dell-iDRACTools-Web-LX-${_pkgver}_A00.tar.gz.sign"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: David Gonzalez <neko.eth0 AT gmail DOT com>
    
      2# Contributor: Ricardo Band <email AT ricardo DOT band>
    
      3_pkgver="11.4.2.0-1990"
    
      4_folder_num="FOLDER14927789M"
    
      5_folder_gpg="FOLDER14927774M"
    
      6_driver_id="2FGYM"
    
      7pkgname=dell-idractools
    
      8pkgver=${_pkgver/-/.}
    
      9pkgrel=2
    
      10pkgdesc="Dell iDRAC Tools (RACADM, VMCLI, IPMI Tool)"
    
      11arch=('x86_64')
    
      12url="https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=${_driver_id}"
    
      13license=('custom:Dell EULA rev 23OCT2024')
    
      14install=${pkgname}.install
    
      15conflicts=(dell-srvadmin dell-mgmtstat)
    
      16makedepends=(rpmextract)
    
      17source=("https://dl.dell.com/${_folder_gpg}/1/Dell-iDRACTools-Web-LX-${_pkgver}_A00.tar.gz.sign"
    
      18        "https://dl.dell.com/${_folder_num}/1/Dell-iDRACTools-Web-LX-${_pkgver}_A00.tar.gz"
    
      19        LICENSE)
    
      20sha256sums=('SKIP'
    
      21            '17ef224d5cb4b646b87dbb4bff3f4f5af901bc7e3589f0f27142caa0b4a130b0'
    
      22            '9bc2344836f09db9c0a9b7d1faa06ee59b6b77b5fff75ea2e607f71bd1a29f4e')
    
      23validpgpkeys=("42550ABD1E80D7C1BC0BAD851285491434D8786F")
    
      24
    
      25# dl.dell.com doesn't like cURL
    
      26DLAGENTS=("https::/usr/bin/curl -A 'Mozilla' -fLC - --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 -o %o %u")
    
      27
    
      28package() {
    
      29    rpm2cpio ${srcdir}/iDRACTools/racadm/RHEL8/${arch}/srvadmin-argtable2-${_pkgver}.el8.${arch}.rpm | bsdtar -xf - -C ${pkgdir}
    
      30    rpm2cpio ${srcdir}/iDRACTools/racadm/RHEL8/${arch}/srvadmin-hapi-${_pkgver}.el8.${arch}.rpm | bsdtar -xf - -C ${pkgdir}
    
      31    rpm2cpio ${srcdir}/iDRACTools/racadm/RHEL8/${arch}/srvadmin-idracadm7-${_pkgver}.el8.${arch}.rpm | bsdtar -xf - -C ${pkgdir}
    
      32
    
      33    # cleanup
    
      34    rm -rf ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/.build-id
    
      35    
    
      36    # remove redundant service file
    
      37    rm -rf ${pkgdir}/etc/systemd/system/instsvcdrv.service
    
      38
    
      39    # merge /usr/lib64 with /usr/lib
    
      40    mv ${pkgdir}/usr/lib64/* ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/
    
      41    rm -rf ${pkgdir}/usr/lib64
    
      42
    
      43    # create symlink to racadm
    
      44    mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/local/bin
    
      45    ln -s /opt/dell/srvadmin/bin/idracadm7 ${pkgdir}/usr/local/bin/idracadm7
    
      46    ln -s /usr/local/bin/idracadm7 ${pkgdir}/usr/local/bin/racadm
    
      47
    
      48    # add LICENSE file
    
      49    install -Dm644 LICENSE "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
    
      50}
    
      51

Scan history

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2026-11-01 00:21:48	Low	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Low	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Low	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Low	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Low	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Low	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Low	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Low	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Low	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Low	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Low	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Low	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Low	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Low	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Low	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Low	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Low	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Low	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Low	2
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Low	2