ecmerge-bin

maintainer alex.henrie · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt binary from a project-associated domain (elliecomputing.com) which is not on the whitelist but plausibly official; the worst case of a swapped source is code execution, but the host is specific to the vendor, not a generic file host, making supply-chain risk low.

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-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt binary from a project-associated domain (elliecomputing.com) which is not on the whitelist but plausibly official; the worst case of a swapped source is code execution, but the host is specific to the vendor, not a generic file host, making supply-chain risk low.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:12 source=("http://www.soft.elliecomputing.com/soft/ecmerge-$pkgver.linux.x86.tbz"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
    
      2pkgname=ecmerge-bin
    
      3pkgver=2.5.205
    
      4pkgrel=2
    
      5pkgdesc='Compares and merges text files, images, binaries and folders visually'
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url='https://www.elliecomputing.com/en/Products/merge_overview.asp'
    
      8license=('custom')
    
      9depends=(lib32-at-spi2-core lib32-brotli lib32-bzip2 lib32-cairo lib32-expat lib32-fontconfig lib32-freetype2 lib32-fribidi lib32-gcc-libs lib32-gdk-pixbuf2 lib32-glib2 lib32-glibc lib32-gtk2 lib32-harfbuzz lib32-libdatrie lib32-libffi lib32-libice lib32-libjpeg-turbo lib32-libpng lib32-libpng12 lib32-libsm lib32-libthai lib32-libtiff lib32-libx11 lib32-libxau lib32-libxcb lib32-libxcomposite lib32-libxcursor lib32-libxdamage lib32-libxdmcp lib32-libxext lib32-libxfixes lib32-libxi lib32-libxinerama lib32-libxrandr lib32-libxrender lib32-pango lib32-pcre2 lib32-pixman lib32-util-linux lib32-xz lib32-zlib lib32-zstd)
    
      10provides=("ecmerge=${pkgver}")
    
      11conflicts=('ecmerge')
    
      12source=("http://www.soft.elliecomputing.com/soft/ecmerge-$pkgver.linux.x86.tbz"
    
      13        "local://ecmerge.desktop")
    
      14sha256sums=('173ee0733bc50fbcf1c6743903629882984560d051420c3ff0217d74b7a37077'
    
      15            'SKIP')
    
      16
    
      17package() {
    
      18	cp -r opt "$pkgdir/"
    
      19
    
      20	mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
    
      21	ln -s /opt/elliecomputing/ecmerge/guimerge "$pkgdir/usr/bin/ecmerge"
    
      22
    
      23	mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications"
    
      24	cp ecmerge.desktop "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications"
    
      25
    
      26	mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname"
    
      27	ln -s /opt/elliecomputing/ecmerge/license.txt "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
    
      28}
    
      29

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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