ezusb

LOW

maintainer young.acinonyx 1 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads a source archive from archive.org, a reputable preservation service, as a backup for an offline official link; it builds and installs a binary driver from that archive, but the source is verifiable and the host is trustworthy, so the risk is low despite the non-whitelisted domain.

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 source archive from archive.org, a reputable preservation service, as a backup for an offline official link; it builds and installs a binary driver from that archive, but the source is verifiable and the host is trustworthy, so the risk is low despite the non-whitelisted domain.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:15 source=("https://archive.org/download/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.zip")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Young Acinonyx <young.acinonyx [at] gmail [dot] com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=ezusb
    
      4_pkgname=EZUSB_Linux
    
      5pkgver=1.5.3
    
      6pkgrel=3
    
      7pkgdesc="Driver for Castles Technology EZ100PU/EZMINI PC/SC Smart Card Reader."
    
      8arch=('x86_64')
    
      9url="https://www.castlestech.com/"
    
      10license=('unknown')
    
      11depends=('pcsclite')
    
      12makedepends=('unzip')
    
      13# The original link is offline, so I uploaded a backup to archive.org
    
      14#source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.zip::https://www.castlestech.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/201511920271676073.zip")
    
      15source=("https://archive.org/download/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.zip")
    
      16md5sums=('c4adcc5cb7f34f3a6092b1474c06c513')
    
      17
    
      18prepare() {
    
      19	cd "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}/"
    
      20	
    
      21	# Extract only the 64-bit version of the driver
    
      22	unzip -qo ${_pkgname}_x86_64_v${pkgver}.zip
    
      23
    
      24	# Remove unnecessary files and directories
    
      25	find "${srcdir}" -type f ! -iname Info.plist ! -iname ezusb.so -delete
    
      26	find "${srcdir}" -type d -empty -delete
    
      27}
    
      28
    
      29package() {
    
      30	install -dm 755 "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/pcsc/drivers/${pkgname}.bundle/Contents/Linux"
    
      31	cp -Rfv "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}/${_pkgname}_x86_64_v${pkgver}/driver_${pkgname}_v${pkgver}_for_64_bit/drivers/Info.plist" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/pcsc/drivers/${pkgname}.bundle/Contents/"
    
      32	cp -Rfv "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}/${_pkgname}_x86_64_v${pkgver}/driver_${pkgname}_v${pkgver}_for_64_bit/drivers/${pkgname}.so" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/pcsc/drivers/${pkgname}.bundle/Contents/Linux"
    
      33}
    
      34

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Low	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Low	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Low	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Low	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Low	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Low	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Low	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Low	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Low	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Low	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Low	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Low	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Low	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Low	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Low	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Low	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Low	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Low	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Low	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Low	2