displaylink

LOW

maintainer endorfina 110 votes scanned 2026-10-17 00:21:55.226236

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Why flagged

The source is a prebuilt driver binary from Synaptics' official website, a legitimate vendor; the non-whitelisted host is part of their corporate domain, and the package installs only firmware, binaries, and config files as expected for a driver, with no obfuscated code or remote execution.

Triggered rules

Low AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 95%): The source is a prebuilt driver binary from Synaptics' official website, a legitimate vendor; the non-whitelisted host is part of their corporate domain, and the package installs only firmware, binaries, and config files as expected for a driver, with no obfuscated code or remote execution.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:20 source=(displaylink-driver-${pkgver}.zip::https://www.synaptics.com/sites/default/files/exe_files/${_releasedate}/DisplayLink%20USB%20Graphics%20Software%20for%20Ubuntu${pkgver}-EXE.zip

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: endorfina <emilia@carcosa.space>
    
      2# Contributor: rHermes <teodor_spaeren@riseup.net>
    
      3# Contributor: bnavigator <code@bnavigator.de>
    
      4# Contributor: PlusMinus
    
      5# Contributor: rhabbachi
    
      6
    
      7pkgname=displaylink
    
      8pkgver=6.3
    
      9_releasedate=2026-06
    
      10_pkgfullver=6.3.0-48
    
      11pkgrel=2
    
      12pkgdesc="Linux driver for DisplayLink devices"
    
      13arch=('i686' 'x86_64' 'arm' 'armv6h' 'armv7h' 'aarch64')
    
      14url="https://www.synaptics.com/products/displaylink-graphics"
    
      15license=('custom' 'GPL2' 'LGPL2.1')
    
      16depends=('evdi<1.16'
    
      17         'libusb')
    
      18makedepends=('grep' 'gawk' 'wget')
    
      19changelog="displaylink-release-notes-${pkgver}.txt"
    
      20source=(displaylink-driver-${pkgver}.zip::https://www.synaptics.com/sites/default/files/exe_files/${_releasedate}/DisplayLink%20USB%20Graphics%20Software%20for%20Ubuntu${pkgver}-EXE.zip
    
      21        "$changelog"
    
      22        DISPLAYLINK-EULA
    
      23        udev.sh
    
      24        99-displaylink.rules
    
      25	displaylink.service
    
      26        displaylink-sleep.sh)
    
      27sha256sums=('7269856c7527060c513215ce1b5a36fef074d8e89cab89bcab13df342acce098'
    
      28            'eb1dddc973eee7ca6c7d213c9be8ebca89701e47782fe8340ab4957d6d4cb66c'
    
      29            '2f81fea43332a62b2cf1dd47e56ea01caf1e886bcd16c3f82b18bfe148fb21a9'
    
      30            'f46839b1f5a1642392c739c3044177f70dd313e7e14db7b121509fa73c91107d'
    
      31            '35b5c5cf24c0b43cbcb054e8547a2a6966ad764de40208d5364b8d57d793a635'
    
      32            '342e83abfe2a38d5635ea928345e933d2ad127ebd3f7caca476663d4f583684b'
    
      33            '9b4609423fd9cfaa8cad8acd086dd6b92cd09182facbb28792affeac1ecc4a45')
    
      34
    
      35prepare() {
    
      36  chmod +x displaylink-driver-${_pkgfullver}.run
    
      37  ./displaylink-driver-${_pkgfullver}.run \
    
      38     --noexec \
    
      39     --target $pkgname-$pkgver \
    
      40     --nox11 \
    
      41     --noprogress
    
      42  if [[ ! -d $pkgname-$pkgver ]]
    
      43  then
    
      44    echo "Extracting the driver with the .run installer failed"
    
      45    exit 1
    
      46  fi
    
      47}
    
      48
    
      49package() {
    
      50  echo "Adding udev rule for DisplayLink devices"
    
      51  install -D -m644 99-displaylink.rules "$pkgdir/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/99-displaylink.rules"
    
      52  install -D -m755 udev.sh "$pkgdir/opt/displaylink/udev.sh"
    
      53
    
      54  echo "Installing DLM systemd service"
    
      55  install -D -m644 displaylink.service "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system/displaylink.service"
    
      56  install -D -m755 displaylink-sleep.sh "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/displaylink.sh"
    
      57
    
      58  COREDIR="$pkgdir/usr/lib/displaylink"
    
      59  install -d -m755 "$COREDIR"
    
      60  install -d -m755 "$pkgdir/var/log/displaylink"
    
      61
    
      62  pushd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      63
    
      64  case $CARCH in
    
      65    i686)
    
      66      ARCH="x86-ubuntu-1604" ;;
    
      67    x86_64)
    
      68      ARCH="x64-ubuntu-1604" ;;
    
      69    arm|armv6h|armv7h)
    
      70      ARCH="arm-linux-gnueabihf" ;;
    
      71    aarch64)
    
      72      ARCH="aarch64-linux-gnu" ;;
    
      73  esac
    
      74
    
      75  echo "Installing DisplayLink Manager $ARCH"
    
      76  install -D -m755 "$ARCH/DisplayLinkManager" "$COREDIR/DisplayLinkManager"
    
      77
    
      78  echo "Installing firmware packages"
    
      79  install -D -m644 ./*.spkg "$COREDIR"
    
      80
    
      81  echo "Installing DLSupportTool"
    
      82  install -D -m755 DLSupportTool.sh "$pkgdir/usr/bin/DLSupportTool.sh"
    
      83
    
      84  echo "Installing license file"
    
      85  install -D -m644 LICENSE "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
    
      86  popd
    
      87  install -D -m644 DISPLAYLINK-EULA "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/DISPLAYLINK-EULA"
    
      88}
    
      89

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-07-02 18:47
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-10-17 00:21
@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@
 pkgver=6.3
 _releasedate=2026-06
 _pkgfullver=6.3.0-48
-pkgrel=1
+pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="Linux driver for DisplayLink devices"
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64' 'arm' 'armv6h' 'armv7h' 'aarch64')
 url="https://www.synaptics.com/products/displaylink-graphics"
 license=('custom' 'GPL2' 'LGPL2.1')
-depends=('evdi<1.15'
+depends=('evdi<1.16'
          'libusb')
 makedepends=('grep' 'gawk' 'wget')
 changelog="displaylink-release-notes-${pkgver}.txt"

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Low	2
2026-10-16 09:15:55	Low	2
2026-07-02 18:47:07	Clean	2
2026-06-24 10:19:16	Clean	2
2026-06-19 19:07:35	Clean	2
2026-06-18 16:11:54	Low	1