fdm-bin

LOW
maintainer arsalan_dev 0 votes scanned 2026-10-03 00:23:04.761738
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Why flagged

Downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from freedownloadmanager.org, which is the official vendor domain, with a sha256 checksum; this is standard binary repackaging of a proprietary app from its own official infrastructure, not a swappable third-party host.

Triggered rules

Low AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 75%): Downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from freedownloadmanager.org, which is the official vendor domain, with a sha256 checksum; this is standard binary repackaging of a proprietary app from its own official infrastructure, not a swappable third-party host.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:13 source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}-amd64.deb::https://files2.freedownloadmanager.org/6/latest/freedownloadmanager.deb")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Arslan <arslan@example.com>
2# Contributor: Freedownloadmanager Team <support@freedownloadmanager.org>
3
4pkgname=fdm-bin
5pkgver=6.34.4.6974
6pkgrel=1
7pkgdesc="Free Download Manager (FDM) - powerful modern download accelerator and organizer (binary release)"
8arch=('x86_64')
9url="https://www.freedownloadmanager.org/"
10license=('custom')
11depends=('openssl' 'xdg-utils' 'ffmpeg' 'bubblewrap' 'xcb-util-cursor' 'libxkbcommon-x11' 'xcb-util-wm' 'xcb-util-keysyms')
12makedepends=('desktop-file-utils' 'hicolor-icon-theme')
13source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}-amd64.deb::https://files2.freedownloadmanager.org/6/latest/freedownloadmanager.deb")
14sha256sums=('299c5bef180b578ae223e03a108279c3b80ec7f9bce3e1792469d46dee2fc6cd')
15
16prepare() {
17 mkdir -p "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
18 # Extract the .deb
19 bsdtar -xf "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-amd64.deb" -C "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
20 # Extract the data
21 bsdtar -xf "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/data.tar.xz" -C "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
22}
23
24package() {
25 cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
26
27 # Fix .desktop file to point to /usr/bin/fdm
28 sed -i 's|/opt/freedownloadmanager/fdm|/usr/bin/fdm|g' usr/share/applications/freedownloadmanager.desktop
29 sed -i 's|/opt/freedownloadmanager/icon.png|freedownloadmanager|g' usr/share/applications/freedownloadmanager.desktop
30 sed -i '/^Exec=/a StartupWMClass=fdm' usr/share/applications/freedownloadmanager.desktop
31
32 # Install icon
33 install -Dm644 opt/freedownloadmanager/icon.png \
34 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/${pkgname}.png"
35
36 # Copy main files
37 cp -dpr --no-preserve=ownership opt usr "${pkgdir}"
38
39 # Create symlink for binary
40 install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
41 ln -s "/opt/freedownloadmanager/fdm" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/fdm"
42}
43

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