greatspn-bin

maintainer steffeno · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from a university personal cloud storage endpoint (datacloud.di.unito.it), which is a WebDAV share rather than an official release channel. The binary is then extracted and installed directly. While a sha256sum is provided (offering some integrity protection against accidental corruption), the host is a personal/departmental cloud share that could be replaced or taken over without any public audit trail. The upstream GitHub repo (greatspn/SOURCES) is the official project, but this .deb is not served from GitHub releases or any verifiable official mirror. Executed native binaries from an unverifiable personal cloud host constitute a genuine supply-chain concern, keeping this at MEDIUM severity.

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:12 source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://datacloud.di.unito.it/public.php/dav/files/MnWgcYamrHdDXZk/greatspn_3.2-linux_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 a prebuilt binary .deb from a university personal cloud storage endpoint (datacloud.di.unito.it), which is a WebDAV share rather than an official release channel. The binary is then extracted and installed directly. While a sha256sum is provided (offering some integrity protection against accidental corruption), the host is a personal/departmental cloud share that could be replaced or taken over without any public audit trail. The upstream GitHub repo (greatspn/SOURCES) is the official project, but this .deb is not served from GitHub releases or any verifiable official mirror. Executed native binaries from an unverifiable personal cloud host constitute a genuine supply-chain concern, keeping this at MEDIUM severity.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: steffeno dash etc at protonmail dot com
    
      2pkgname=greatspn-bin
    
      3pkgver=3.2
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="GreatSPN: Graphical Editor and Analyzer for Timed and Stochastic Petri Nets"
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url="https://github.com/greatspn/SOURCES"
    
      8license=('GPL2')
    
      9depends=('graphviz' 'ghostscript' 'java-runtime' 'gcc-libs' 'glibc')
    
      10provides=('greatspn')
    
      11conflicts=('greatspn')
    
      12source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://datacloud.di.unito.it/public.php/dav/files/MnWgcYamrHdDXZk/greatspn_3.2-linux_amd64.deb")
    
      13sha256sums=('70795c575a903c9721fff16ca9ae791b59429fc44a14fbd9bb2167b218deeb00')
    
      14options=(!strip)
    
      15
    
      16package() {
    
      17  ar x "${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb"
    
      18  
    
      19  install -d "$pkgdir/usr"
    
      20  tar -xf data.tar.* -C "$pkgdir/"
    
      21}
    
      22

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