freedownloadmanager

LOW
maintainer rizwan486 48 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785
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Why flagged

The package installs a prebuilt .deb from the official project's own release domain (files2.freedownloadmanager.org), which is a normal distribution method for this software; the host is not whitelisted but plausibly legitimate, and no untrusted remote code execution occurs.

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-2507) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package installs a prebuilt .deb from the official project's own release domain (files2.freedownloadmanager.org), which is a normal distribution method for this software; the host is not whitelisted but plausibly legitimate, and no untrusted remote code execution occurs.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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: Freedownloadmanager Team <support@freedownloadmanager.org>
2# Contributor: Rizwan Hasan <rizwan.hasan486@gmail.com>
3
4pkgname=freedownloadmanager
5pkgver=6.35.1.7021
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}-${pkgver}-amd64.deb::https://files2.freedownloadmanager.org/6/latest/freedownloadmanager.deb")
14sha256sums=("df1688591eb11bf4d9047b3cae44b66d7cd977a7650d79a44b997a2ed05cf5b0")
15
16prepare() {
17 mkdir -p "$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

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
2026-11-01 00:21:48 Low 2
2026-10-31 00:07:41 Low 2
2026-10-30 00:29:30 Low 2
2026-10-29 00:13:55 Low 2
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2026-10-28 00:06:54 Low 2
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