freefonts

LOW

maintainer eworm 26 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The package downloads a font archive from the official GIMP project's download host, which is plausibly the project's own source; fonts are non-executable data, so the worst case of a swapped source is limited to data tampering, not code execution.

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-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a font archive from the official GIMP project's download host, which is plausibly the project's own source; fonts are non-executable data, so the worst case of a swapped source is limited to data tampering, not code execution.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:12 source=("https://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/fonts/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de>
    
      2# Contributor: Bram Schoenmakers <me@bramschoenmakers.nl>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=freefonts
    
      5pkgver=0.10
    
      6pkgrel=4
    
      7pkgdesc='A set of free Type1 fonts'
    
      8arch=('any')
    
      9url='http://www.gimp.org/'
    
      10license=('custom')
    
      11makedepends=('fontconfig' 'xorg-font-utils')
    
      12source=("https://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/fonts/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz")
    
      13sha256sums=('1babf159f79221c2fd6778d49b4740907e63bd4febeeac0a597760d2b5d71608')
    
      14
    
      15package() {
    
      16	cd ${srcdir}/freefont
    
      17
    
      18	install -d ${pkgdir}/usr/share/fonts/freefonts
    
      19	install -d ${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/freefonts
    
      20
    
      21	install -m0644 *.pfb ${pkgdir}/usr/share/fonts/freefonts/
    
      22	install -m0644 *.license ${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/freefonts/
    
      23}
    
      24
    
      25

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
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
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Low	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Low	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Low	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Low	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Low	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Low	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Low	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Low	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Low	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Low	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Low	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Low	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Low	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Low	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Low	2
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Low	2