freedownloadmanager

maintainer rizwan486 · 47 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt Debian package from a non-standard host (files2.freedownloadmanager.org) which is not on the standard package whitelist, and the source is a binary blob that could be tampered with if the host is compromised, constituting a supply-chain risk.

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

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt Debian package from a non-standard host (files2.freedownloadmanager.org) which is not on the standard package whitelist, and the source is a binary blob that could be tampered with if the host is compromised, constituting a supply-chain risk.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Freedownloadmanager Team <support@freedownloadmanager.org>
    
      2# Contributor: Rizwan Hasan <rizwan.hasan486@gmail.com>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=freedownloadmanager
    
      5pkgver=6.34.3.6948
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc="FDM is a powerful modern download accelerator and organizer."
    
      8arch=('x86_64')
    
      9url="https://www.freedownloadmanager.org/"
    
      10license=('Freeware')
    
      11depends=('openssl' 'xdg-utils' 'ffmpeg' 'libtorrent' 'gst-plugins-base' 'qt6-wayland')
    
      12# source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}-amd64.deb::http://debrepo.freedownloadmanager.org/pool/main/f/${pkgname}/${pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
    
      13source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}-amd64.deb::https://files2.freedownloadmanager.org/6/latest/freedownloadmanager.deb")
    
      14sha256sums=("af7f410a0049684e8582b1b2157795abb9e12d45fba3c25e522df000e56d0429")
    
      15
    
      16prepare() {
    
      17    mkdir -p "$pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      18    tar -xvf data.tar.xz -C "$pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      19    # tar --use-compress-program=unzstd -xvf data.tar.zst -C "$pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      20}
    
      21
    
      22package() {
    
      23    cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      24
    
      25    sed -i 's/\/opt\/freedownloadmanager\/icon\.png/freedownloadmanager/g' \
    
      26        './usr/share/applications/freedownloadmanager.desktop'
    
      27    sed -i 's/\/opt\/freedownloadmanager\/fdm/\/usr\/bin\/fdm/g' \
    
      28        './usr/share/applications/freedownloadmanager.desktop'
    
      29
    
      30    # Application Icon
    
      31    install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps"
    
      32    ln -sv "/opt/$pkgname/icon.png" \
    
      33        "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/$pkgname.png"
    
      34
    
      35    # Add StartupWMClass
    
      36    sed -i '/^Exec=/a StartupWMClass=fdm' \
    
      37        './usr/share/applications/freedownloadmanager.desktop'
    
      38
    
      39    cp -dpr --no-preserve=ownership opt usr "$pkgdir"
    
      40
    
      41    install -d "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
    
      42    ln -sv "/opt/$pkgname/fdm" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/fdm"
    
      43}
    
      44

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-07-08 00:26
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Contributor: Rizwan Hasan <rizwan.hasan486@gmail.com>
 
 pkgname=freedownloadmanager
-pkgver=6.34.1.6907
+pkgver=6.34.3.6948
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="FDM is a powerful modern download accelerator and organizer."
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 depends=('openssl' 'xdg-utils' 'ffmpeg' 'libtorrent' 'gst-plugins-base' 'qt6-wayland')
 # source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}-amd64.deb::http://debrepo.freedownloadmanager.org/pool/main/f/${pkgname}/${pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
 source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}-amd64.deb::https://files2.freedownloadmanager.org/6/latest/freedownloadmanager.deb")
-sha256sums=("92db4c0fb8e27869c7eb6c1c47a95da5f8657580050376af539f82c9464f2d55")
+sha256sums=("af7f410a0049684e8582b1b2157795abb9e12d45fba3c25e522df000e56d0429")
 
 prepare() {
     mkdir -p "$pkgname-$pkgver"

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 07:16:26	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-08 00:26:52	CLEAN	2
2026-07-07 05:23:33	MEDIUM	1
2026-06-20 16:03:41	CLEAN	2
2026-06-20 00:50:07	MEDIUM	2
2026-06-20 00:18:46	MEDIUM	1
2026-06-19 23:51:18	MEDIUM	2