flasher-harmattan

maintainer Louis · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads prebuilt binary .deb packages (containing an executable flasher binary installed to /usr/bin) from coderus.openrepos.net, which is a personal/community hosting site rather than an official Nokia/Maemo distribution channel. The original Maemo flasher tool was distributed by Nokia and is no longer officially available, so this is a common workaround, but the binary is executed code from a non-official third-party host. The sha256sums provide some integrity protection against in-transit tampering, but do not protect against the host owner substituting a malicious binary. openrepos.net is a known Maemo/Sailfish community repository and coderus is a well-known community developer in that ecosystem, which lowers (but does not eliminate) the risk. The concern is real but not clearly malicious — a classic medium supply-chain risk for an executed binary from an unofficial host.

Triggered rules

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:19 source_x86_64=('https://coderus.openrepos.net/flasher/flasher_3.12.1_amd64.deb')

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The PKGBUILD downloads prebuilt binary .deb packages (containing an executable flasher binary installed to /usr/bin) from coderus.openrepos.net, which is a personal/community hosting site rather than an official Nokia/Maemo distribution channel. The original Maemo flasher tool was distributed by Nokia and is no longer officially available, so this is a common workaround, but the binary is executed code from a non-official third-party host. The sha256sums provide some integrity protection against in-transit tampering, but do not protect against the host owner substituting a malicious binary. openrepos.net is a known Maemo/Sailfish community repository and coderus is a well-known community developer in that ecosystem, which lowers (but does not eliminate) the risk. The concern is real but not clearly malicious — a classic medium supply-chain risk for an executed binary from an unofficial host.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Louis Tim Larsen <louis(a)louis.dk>
    
      2# Contributor: jtts
    
      3# Contributor: Mikael Eriksson <mikael_eriksson@miffe.org>
    
      4
    
      5pkgname=flasher-harmattan
    
      6pkgver=3.12.1
    
      7pkgrel=5
    
      8pkgdesc="Maemo Flasher-3.12.1 Tool for Harmattan"
    
      9arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
    
      10url="https://wiki.maemo.org/Flashing_N9"
    
      11license=('custom')
    
      12depends=('libusb-compat')
    
      13conflicts=('flasher')
    
      14install=flasher-harmattan.install
    
      15source=('LICENSE.txt'
    
      16        'flasher-harmattan.conf')
    
      17sha256sums=('a3c2014fb8c45a209a77f69bbda3ee2e726a995999e3e7c6aa37ce895accb43d'
    
      18            '01c53815c3a300a3c4174f999e6eabbaa654e6cd2edeb0861ff388dfb7e739fa')
    
      19source_x86_64=('https://coderus.openrepos.net/flasher/flasher_3.12.1_amd64.deb')
    
      20source_i686=('https://coderus.openrepos.net/flasher/flasher_3.12.1_i386.deb')
    
      21sha256sums_x86_64=('c1b613952af32c1484cfcdf0b16d652b11770d77aa549d27c33a02dc2b95ac82')
    
      22sha256sums_i686=('bd528247cdba30f6f87283554e76a2a4134f2e725f6636f998a89e47128d16af')
    
      23
    
      24package() {
    
      25  cd "$srcdir"
    
      26  tar -xnf "$srcdir/data.tar.gz"
    
      27
    
      28  install -m755 -d $pkgdir/{etc/modprobe.d,usr/{bin,share/doc/flasher,share/licenses/flasher-harmattan}}
    
      29  install -m755 usr/bin/flasher $pkgdir/usr/bin/flasher
    
      30  install -m644 usr/share/doc/flasher/copyright $pkgdir/usr/share/doc/flasher/copyright
    
      31  install -m644 usr/share/doc/flasher/changelog.gz $pkgdir/usr/share/doc/flasher/changelog.gz
    
      32  install -m644 LICENSE.txt $pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/flasher-harmattan/LICENSE.txt
    
      33  install -m644 flasher-harmattan.conf $pkgdir/etc/modprobe.d/flasher-harmattan.conf
    
      34}
    
      35

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	MEDIUM	2