eterm8

maintainer malmz · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
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Why flagged This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt .deb containing multiple compiled binaries (eterm8, simserver, arm-none-eabi-as, arm-none-eabi-gdb, arm-none-eabi-ld, arm-none-eabi-objcopy, arm-none-eabi-objdump) from a personal/educational website (gbgmv.se) and installs them directly without building from source. The binaries are cross-toolchain components and an IDE that will execute with user privileges. The host appears to be a Swedish university-related personal site for a course on machine programming, which is plausible context, and both md5 and sha256 checksums are provided, which mitigates (but does not eliminate) the risk of in-transit tampering. However, the fundamental supply-chain concern remains: these are closed-source prebuilt executables from a non-authoritative personal host with no reproducibility. If the host is compromised or the maintainer uploads malicious binaries, users would execute arbitrary code. This is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain risk, not a false positive.

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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:14 source=(http://www.gbgmv.se/dl/linux/$pkgname\_$pkgver\_amd64.deb)
MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt .deb containing multiple compiled binaries (eterm8, simserver, arm-none-eabi-as, arm-none-eabi-gdb, arm-none-eabi-ld, arm-none-eabi-objcopy, arm-none-eabi-objdump) from a personal/educational website (gbgmv.se) and installs them directly without building from source. The binaries are cross-toolchain components and an IDE that will execute with user privileges. The host appears to be a Swedish university-related personal site for a course on machine programming, which is plausible context, and both md5 and sha256 checksums are provided, which mitigates (but does not eliminate) the risk of in-transit tampering. However, the fundamental supply-chain concern remains: these are closed-source prebuilt executables from a non-authoritative personal host with no reproducibility. If the host is compromised or the maintainer uploads malicious binaries, users would execute arbitrary code. This is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain risk, not a false positive.

PKGBUILD

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1#Maintainer: Carl Malmgren <cral@codegrotto.com>
2#Contributor: Julius Schumacher <juliusschumacher at gmail dot com>
3pkgname=eterm8
4pkgver=1.04
5pkgrel=1
6pkgdesc="IDE for assembly language programming"
7arch=('x86_64')
8url="http://www.gbgmv.se/studies.html#machprog"
9license=('Copyright 1989-2018, GMV')
10
11depends=('gtk3' 'ncurses' 'libsm' 'libxxf86vm' 'gcc' 'zlib')
12makedepends=('libarchive')
13
14source=(http://www.gbgmv.se/dl/linux/$pkgname\_$pkgver\_amd64.deb)
15md5sums=('87b8a91b1a11e59aa657fd832b74c22d')
16sha256sums=('f6da370469050e9b4986ace2f2573e9236697d218f90d7e799a7bfe307272094')
17
18prepare() {
19 echo "Unpacking .deb"
20 cd $srcdir
21 bsdtar -xf data.tar.xz
22}
23
24package() {
25 echo "Moving stuff in place"
26 install -Dm755 "$srcdir/usr/share/eterm8/arm-none-eabi-as" \
27 "$pkgdir/usr/share/eterm8/arm-none-eabi-as"
28
29 install -Dm755 "$srcdir/usr/share/eterm8/arm-none-eabi-gdb" \
30 "$pkgdir/usr/share/eterm8/arm-none-eabi-gdb"
31
32 install -Dm755 "$srcdir/usr/share/eterm8/arm-none-eabi-ld" \
33 "$pkgdir/usr/share/eterm8/arm-none-eabi-ld"
34
35 install -Dm755 "$srcdir/usr/share/eterm8/arm-none-eabi-objcopy" \
36 "$pkgdir/usr/share/eterm8/arm-none-eabi-objcopy"
37
38 install -Dm755 "$srcdir/usr/share/eterm8/arm-none-eabi-objdump" \
39 "$pkgdir/usr/share/eterm8/arm-none-eabi-objdump"
40
41 install -Dm755 "$srcdir/usr/share/eterm8/eterm8" \
42 "$pkgdir/usr/share/eterm8/eterm8"
43
44 install -Dm755 "$srcdir/usr/share/eterm8/eterm8.png" \
45 "$pkgdir/usr/share/eterm8/eterm8.png"
46
47 install -Dm755 "$srcdir/usr/share/eterm8/md407-ram.x" \
48 "$pkgdir/usr/share/eterm8/md407-ram.x"
49
50 install -Dm755 "$srcdir/usr/share/eterm8/simserver" \
51 "$pkgdir/usr/share/eterm8/simserver"
52
53 install -Dm755 "$srcdir/usr/share/eterm8/simserver.png" \
54 "$pkgdir/usr/share/eterm8/simserver.png"
55
56 install -Dm644 "$srcdir/usr/share/applications/eterm8.desktop" \
57 "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/eterm8.desktop"
58
59 install -Dm644 "$srcdir/usr/share/applications/gdbarm.desktop" \
60 "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/gdbarm.desktop"
61
62 install -Dm644 "$srcdir/usr/share/applications/simserver.desktop" \
63 "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/simserver.desktop"
64
65 install -Dm644 "$srcdir/usr/share/doc/eterm8/changelog.gz" \
66 "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/eterm8/changelog.gz"
67
68 install -Dm644 "$srcdir/usr/share/doc/eterm8/copyright" \
69 "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/eterm8/copyright"
70
71 echo "Creating symlinks"
72 mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
73 ln -s "/usr/share/eterm8/eterm8" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/eterm8"
74 ln -s "/usr/share/eterm8/simserver" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/simserver"
75 ln -s "/usr/share/eterm8/gdbarm" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/gdbarm"
76}
77
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