gobi-firmware-mc8355

maintainer swiftgeek · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
LOW
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Why flagged The package downloads a firmware installer from Lenovo's official support domain, extracts it, and installs non-executable firmware blobs (.mbn files) to the appropriate location; despite the non-whitelisted host, the source is legitimate and the installed files are not executable code.

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 firmware installer from Lenovo's official support domain, extracts it, and installs non-executable firmware blobs (.mbn files) to the appropriate location; despite the non-whitelisted host, the source is legitimate and the installed files are not executable code.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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=('https://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/8awt16ww.exe')

PKGBUILD

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1
2pkgname=gobi-firmware-mc8355
3pkgver=1.0.45.0
4pkgrel=1
5pkgdesc="Firmware for Sierra Wireless MC8355 (Gobi 3000)"
6arch=('any')
7license=('custom')
8optdepends=('gobi-loader: for automatic firmware loading')
9makedepends=('innoextract' 'p7zip')
10conflicts=('gobi-firmware')
11url="http://support.lenovo.com/gb/en/downloads/migr-77035"
12options=("!strip")
13source=('https://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/8awt16ww.exe')
14sha256sums=('d5b4ba982f01cc72688723112fcaa68ed7708426f9f3b1e4af30ce08bdf49341')
15
16# There are 3 sets of firmwares:
17# • DPRImages/3000/ - Dynamic Power Reduction, probably requires OS cooperation
18# • Images/3000/ - dunno
19# • 3000/ - dunno
20# In each set there are 9 different firmwares, each for
21# specific carrier or generic (this is taken from ImageInfo.xml):
22# • <dir> - Carrier - MCC MCN code (Mobile Country Code, Mobile Network Code)
23# • 0 - Vodafone - 454006,454015,228001,505003,262002,602002,202005,216070,272001,278001,530001,222010,214001,268001,286002,234015,234015,276002,242001,226001
24# • 1 - Verizon - 310012
25# • 2 - AT&T - 310150,310170,310380,310410
26# • 3 - Sprint - ANY
27# • 4 - T-Mobile - 262001,219001,219013,216030
28# • 5 - »Doesn't exist«
29# • 6 - Generic UMTS - ANY
30# • 7 - Telefonica - 214007,334003,730002,730002,214007
31# • 8 - Telecom Italia - 334003,730002,214007
32# • 9 - Orange - 310260,310270,310250,310200,310031,310220,310160,310660,310240,310230,310210,310026,234030,234031,234032
33
34firmware_type="Images/3000" # Path
35firmware_carrier_id=6 # From list above
36
37package() {
38 cd $srcdir
39 innoextract -e 8awt16ww.exe -I LenovoGobi3kSetup.exe
40 cd app
41 7z x LenovoGobi3kSetup.exe "${firmware_type}/Generic/${firmware_carrier_id}/*.mbn" -aou
42 # Replace old files with newer ones
43 cd "${firmware_type}/Generic/${firmware_carrier_id}/"
44 for file in amss uqcn uqcn_nogps; do
45 [ -f "${file}_1.mbn" ] && [ "${file}_1.mbn" -nt "${file}.mbn" ] && mv "${file}_1.mbn" "${file}.mbn"
46 done
47
48 install -d -m755 "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/firmware/gobi"
49 install -m644 "amss.mbn" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/firmware/gobi"
50 #install -m644 "apps.mbn" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/firmware/gobi"
51 install -m644 "uqcn.mbn" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/firmware/gobi" # Comment if you don't want GPS
52 #install -m644 "uqcn_nogps.mbn" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/firmware/gobi/uqcn.mbn" # Uncomment if you don't want GPS
53}
54

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