dpatch

maintainer orphaned · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The source is a prebuilt Debian .deb package pulled from http.debian.net, which is the official Debian HTTP redirector/mirror network (a legitimate Debian infrastructure host, not a personal or unofficial host). The package is an 'any'-arch Perl/shell script package (dpatch), not a native binary, so the risk from the prebuilt artifact is lower than for compiled code. A sha256sum is provided and pinned, which mitigates substitution attacks at the mirror level. The main concerns are: (1) http:// rather than https:// means the download is not transport-encrypted, but the sha256 check compensates; (2) extracting a .deb directly with dpkg-deb and installing its contents into pkgdir is non-standard but not malicious. Overall this is sloppy/non-standard packaging (pulling from Debian instead of building from source) but not a genuine supply-chain threat given the hash pin and the nature of the content.

Triggered rules

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 82%): The source is a prebuilt Debian .deb package pulled from http.debian.net, which is the official Debian HTTP redirector/mirror network (a legitimate Debian infrastructure host, not a personal or unofficial host). The package is an 'any'-arch Perl/shell script package (dpatch), not a native binary, so the risk from the prebuilt artifact is lower than for compiled code. A sha256sum is provided and pinned, which mitigates substitution attacks at the mirror level. The main concerns are: (1) http:// rather than https:// means the download is not transport-encrypted, but the sha256 check compensates; (2) extracting a .deb directly with dpkg-deb and installing its contents into pkgdir is non-standard but not malicious. Overall this is sloppy/non-standard packaging (pulling from Debian instead of building from source) but not a genuine supply-chain threat given the hash pin and the nature of the content.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:36 "dpatch_${_pkgver}${_deblevel}_all.deb::http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dpatch/dpatch_${_pkgver}${_deblevel}_all.deb"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1#!/bin/bash
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=dpatch
    
      4_pkgver="2.0.41"
    
      5_deblevel=""
    
      6pkgver="${_pkgver}${_deblevel}"
    
      7pkgrel=2
    
      8
    
      9pkgdesc="A easy to use patch system for Debian packages, somewhat similar to the dbs package, but much simpler to use."
    
      10url="https://packages.debian.org/stable/dpatch"
    
      11license=('GPL2')
    
      12
    
      13arch=(
    
      14  'any'
    
      15)
    
      16
    
      17depends=(
    
      18  'debhelper'
    
      19  'dpkg'
    
      20  'make'
    
      21  'perl'
    
      22)
    
      23makedepends=()
    
      24optdepends=(
    
      25  'fakeroot'
    
      26  'patchutils'
    
      27  'curl'
    
      28)
    
      29provides=()
    
      30replaces=()
    
      31conflicts=()
    
      32
    
      33options=('emptydirs')
    
      34
    
      35source=(
    
      36  "dpatch_${_pkgver}${_deblevel}_all.deb::http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dpatch/dpatch_${_pkgver}${_deblevel}_all.deb"
    
      37)
    
      38
    
      39sha256sums=(
    
      40  '267461f5998ad7472aeb50f7d66708518d51923ca79bb16a3726e24e5ab3a8b2'
    
      41)
    
      42
    
      43noextract=(
    
      44  "dpatch_${_pkgver}${_deblevel}_all.deb"
    
      45)
    
      46
    
      47package() {
    
      48  cd "${srcdir}"
    
      49  msg "Extracting files with dpkg-deb to \$pkgdir ..."
    
      50  dpkg-deb -x "dpatch_${_pkgver}${_deblevel}_all.deb" "${pkgdir}"
    
      51}
    
      52

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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