fdm-bin

maintainer arsalan_dev · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-18 00:03:42.021799

LOW

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.

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Uploaded within the last 14 days with 2 or fewer community votes — little peer review so far.

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.

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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:13 source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}-amd64.deb::https://files2.freedownloadmanager.org/6/latest/freedownloadmanager.deb")

PKGBUILD

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      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

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-18 00:03:42	LOW	3
2026-08-17 00:18:29	LOW	3
2026-08-16 00:03:42	LOW	3
2026-08-15 00:26:13	LOW	3
2026-08-14 00:03:41	LOW	3
2026-08-13 11:30:00	LOW	3
2026-08-13 11:26:16	MEDIUM	2