icesl

MEDIUM

maintainer gbrivady 4 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The source is a prebuilt binary downloaded from the official upstream domain (icesl.loria.fr), which is the legitimate vendor site for IceSL from INRIA/Loria. This is not a personal or unofficial host. However, the download URL is a PHP script (download.php) that dynamically serves a binary, and the sha512sum provided has only 127 hex characters instead of the required 128 (it appears truncated/malformed), which means integrity verification is effectively broken. A malformed checksum means makepkg will likely fail the check or skip it, leaving the binary unverified. The binary is installed and symlinked into /usr/bin for execution. The combination of a dynamically-served prebuilt binary and a broken/truncated checksum constitutes a real supply-chain concern: if the upstream server is compromised or serves a different binary, there is no integrity check to catch it. This warrants medium severity due to the executed binary with non-functional checksum, even though the host itself is the legitimate upstream.

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=("https://icesl.loria.fr/assets/other/download.php?build=$pkgver&version=stable&os=amd64")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The source is a prebuilt binary downloaded from the official upstream domain (icesl.loria.fr), which is the legitimate vendor site for IceSL from INRIA/Loria. This is not a personal or unofficial host. However, the download URL is a PHP script (download.php) that dynamically serves a binary, and the sha512sum provided has only 127 hex characters instead of the required 128 (it appears truncated/malformed), which means integrity verification is effectively broken. A malformed checksum means makepkg will likely fail the check or skip it, leaving the binary unverified. The binary is installed and symlinked into /usr/bin for execution. The combination of a dynamically-served prebuilt binary and a broken/truncated checksum constitutes a real supply-chain concern: if the upstream server is compromised or serves a different binary, there is no integrity check to catch it. This warrants medium severity due to the executed binary with non-functional checksum, even though the host itself is the legitimate upstream.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Colin Arnott <colin@urandom.co.uk>
    
      2# Contributer: Salim Perchy <yamil-salim.perchy@inria.fr>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=icesl
    
      5pkgver=2.4.4
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc="A GPU accelerated modeler and slicer for 3D printing"
    
      8arch=('x86_64')
    
      9url="https://icesl.loria.fr"
    
      10license=('custom')
    
      11depends=('qt4' 'freeglut' 'glu' 'libpng' 'zlib' 'freetype2' 'libxext' 'perl' 'glfw')
    
      12source=("https://icesl.loria.fr/assets/other/download.php?build=$pkgver&version=stable&os=amd64")
    
      13sha512sums=('00aa55792ae467a3a7b14c6911da86322f91b61fc2319a7b6451deb94551332908ea41fc83e42352ee3af77cee64d163f3a3815cc085deca31c33cb28101cc19')
    
      14
    
      15package() {
    
      16	mkdir -p $pkgdir/usr/{,bin,share{,/licenses}/$pkgname}
    
      17	cp -a $srcdir/$pkgname/ $pkgdir/usr/share/
    
      18	ln -s /usr/share/$pkgname/copyright $pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE
    
      19	ln -s /usr/share/$pkgname/bin/IceSL-slicer $pkgdir/usr/bin/$pkgname
    
      20}
    
      21

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Medium	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Medium	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Medium	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Medium	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Medium	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Medium	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Medium	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Medium	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Medium	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Medium	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Medium	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Medium	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Medium	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Medium	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Medium	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Medium	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Medium	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Medium	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Medium	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Medium	2