ezusb

maintainer young.acinonyx · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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
2026-08-03 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