hdsentinel

MEDIUM

maintainer Archttila 17 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

This PKGBUILD installs prebuilt closed-source binaries (for i686, x86_64, armv6h, armv7h) downloaded directly from hdsentinel.com, the official vendor domain. The binaries are executed directly on the user's system. While the domain is the legitimate upstream vendor, the package installs closed-source, unauditable binaries with no source code available, and the checksums are hardcoded (providing integrity but not authenticity). The x86_64 source is a zip but the package() function only calls gunzip, suggesting a potential build issue for that arch. The supply-chain risk is real but typical for closed-source freeware distributed as prebuilt binaries — the threat model is vendor compromise or checksum mismatch, not an active attack. This is a standard medium-risk pattern for closed-source binary packages in the AUR.

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_i686=($pkgname-$pkgver.gz::https://www.hdsentinel.com/hdslin/hdsentinel-019b.gz)

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): This PKGBUILD installs prebuilt closed-source binaries (for i686, x86_64, armv6h, armv7h) downloaded directly from hdsentinel.com, the official vendor domain. The binaries are executed directly on the user's system. While the domain is the legitimate upstream vendor, the package installs closed-source, unauditable binaries with no source code available, and the checksums are hardcoded (providing integrity but not authenticity). The x86_64 source is a zip but the package() function only calls gunzip, suggesting a potential build issue for that arch. The supply-chain risk is real but typical for closed-source freeware distributed as prebuilt binaries — the threat model is vendor compromise or checksum mismatch, not an active attack. This is a standard medium-risk pattern for closed-source binary packages in the AUR.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Hajos Attila <linux[dot]alucard[at]gmail[dot]com>
    
      2# Contributor: János Illés <ijanos@gmail.com>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=hdsentinel
    
      5pkgver=0.20
    
      6pkgrel=0
    
      7pkgdesc="A freeware, closed source, SMART analysis tool"
    
      8arch=('i686' 'x86_64' 'armv6h' 'armv7h')
    
      9url="https://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_sentinel_linux.php"
    
      10license=('unknown')
    
      11depends=()
    
      12source_i686=($pkgname-$pkgver.gz::https://www.hdsentinel.com/hdslin/hdsentinel-019b.gz)
    
      13sha256sums_i686=(2cf5ed4c407603344370fe50f00cedaa261363688326a1dc960dbed2d77d8634)
    
      14source_x86_64=($pkgname-$pkgver.gz::https://www.hdsentinel.com/hdslin/hdsentinel-020-x64.zip)
    
      15sha256sums_x86_64=(c88b94e897609f5cf46b535d8382b35ccf00d415ea139924baa9f215b90a0878)
    
      16source_armv6h=($pkgname-$pkgver.gz::https://www.hdsentinel.com/hdslin/hdsentinel-018-arm.gz)
    
      17sha256sums_armv6h=(0a292022724a4b8fdbd566398f359c453099628f6d7201cfd0059ff409809016)
    
      18source_armv7h=($pkgname-$pkgver.gz::https://www.hdsentinel.com/hdslin/hdsentinel-armv7.gz)
    
      19sha256sums_armv7h=(82e77b011030d99c4c784a72979cad520196eb520a8727f0d325431902914fc3)
    
      20
    
      21package() {
    
      22  gunzip -k -f "$pkgname-$pkgver.gz"
    
      23  install -m755 -D "$pkgname-$pkgver" $pkgdir/usr/bin/hdsentinel || return 1
    
      24}
    
      25

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Medium	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Medium	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Medium	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Medium	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Medium	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Medium	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Medium	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Medium	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Medium	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Medium	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Medium	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Medium	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Medium	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Medium	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Medium	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Medium	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Medium	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Medium	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Medium	2
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Medium	2