eterm8
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.
Triggered rules
source_untrusted_domain
One or more source=() URLs point to a host outside the trusted allowlist (github.com, gitlab.com, codeberg.org, pypi.org, …).
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PKGBUILD:14
source=(http://www.gbgmv.se/dl/linux/$pkgname\_$pkgver\_amd64.deb)
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
1 offending line(s) highlighted#Maintainer: Carl Malmgren <cral@codegrotto.com>
#Contributor: Julius Schumacher <juliusschumacher at gmail dot com>
pkgname=eterm8
pkgver=1.04
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="IDE for assembly language programming"
arch=('x86_64')
url="http://www.gbgmv.se/studies.html#machprog"
license=('Copyright 1989-2018, GMV')
depends=('gtk3' 'ncurses' 'libsm' 'libxxf86vm' 'gcc' 'zlib')
makedepends=('libarchive')
source=(http://www.gbgmv.se/dl/linux/$pkgname\_$pkgver\_amd64.deb)
md5sums=('87b8a91b1a11e59aa657fd832b74c22d')
sha256sums=('f6da370469050e9b4986ace2f2573e9236697d218f90d7e799a7bfe307272094')
prepare() {
echo "Unpacking .deb"
cd $srcdir
bsdtar -xf data.tar.xz
}
package() {
echo "Moving stuff in place"
install -Dm755 "$srcdir/usr/share/eterm8/arm-none-eabi-as" \
"$pkgdir/usr/share/eterm8/arm-none-eabi-as"
install -Dm755 "$srcdir/usr/share/eterm8/arm-none-eabi-gdb" \
"$pkgdir/usr/share/eterm8/arm-none-eabi-gdb"
install -Dm755 "$srcdir/usr/share/eterm8/arm-none-eabi-ld" \
"$pkgdir/usr/share/eterm8/arm-none-eabi-ld"
install -Dm755 "$srcdir/usr/share/eterm8/arm-none-eabi-objcopy" \
"$pkgdir/usr/share/eterm8/arm-none-eabi-objcopy"
install -Dm755 "$srcdir/usr/share/eterm8/arm-none-eabi-objdump" \
"$pkgdir/usr/share/eterm8/arm-none-eabi-objdump"
install -Dm755 "$srcdir/usr/share/eterm8/eterm8" \
"$pkgdir/usr/share/eterm8/eterm8"
install -Dm755 "$srcdir/usr/share/eterm8/eterm8.png" \
"$pkgdir/usr/share/eterm8/eterm8.png"
install -Dm755 "$srcdir/usr/share/eterm8/md407-ram.x" \
"$pkgdir/usr/share/eterm8/md407-ram.x"
install -Dm755 "$srcdir/usr/share/eterm8/simserver" \
"$pkgdir/usr/share/eterm8/simserver"
install -Dm755 "$srcdir/usr/share/eterm8/simserver.png" \
"$pkgdir/usr/share/eterm8/simserver.png"
install -Dm644 "$srcdir/usr/share/applications/eterm8.desktop" \
"$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/eterm8.desktop"
install -Dm644 "$srcdir/usr/share/applications/gdbarm.desktop" \
"$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/gdbarm.desktop"
install -Dm644 "$srcdir/usr/share/applications/simserver.desktop" \
"$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/simserver.desktop"
install -Dm644 "$srcdir/usr/share/doc/eterm8/changelog.gz" \
"$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/eterm8/changelog.gz"
install -Dm644 "$srcdir/usr/share/doc/eterm8/copyright" \
"$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/eterm8/copyright"
echo "Creating symlinks"
mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
ln -s "/usr/share/eterm8/eterm8" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/eterm8"
ln -s "/usr/share/eterm8/simserver" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/simserver"
ln -s "/usr/share/eterm8/gdbarm" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/gdbarm"
}
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| 2026-08-30 00:04:14 | Medium | 2 |
| 2026-08-29 00:29:17 | Medium | 2 |