icesl-beta

maintainer orphaned · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary from icesl.loria.fr (LORIA, a French research institute, which is the legitimate upstream for IceSL). The URL uses a PHP download script with query parameters to select the build, which is a common pattern for research software distribution portals. The domain matches the official project URL listed in the 'url' field. However, the concerns are real: (1) a prebuilt binary is downloaded and installed directly without compilation from source, (2) the download is via a dynamic PHP script rather than a static file, making the checksum less reliably tied to a specific artifact (the server could theoretically serve different content), and (3) the sha512sum has only 127 hex characters instead of the required 128, suggesting a truncated/corrupted checksum that would fail verification. The truncated checksum is the most concrete issue — it means integrity verification may not work correctly. Overall this is a medium-risk pattern: official-looking upstream host but prebuilt binary with a potentially broken checksum.

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:14 source=("https://icesl.loria.fr/assets/other/download.php?build=${pkgver//_/-}&version=beta&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%): This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary from icesl.loria.fr (LORIA, a French research institute, which is the legitimate upstream for IceSL). The URL uses a PHP download script with query parameters to select the build, which is a common pattern for research software distribution portals. The domain matches the official project URL listed in the 'url' field. However, the concerns are real: (1) a prebuilt binary is downloaded and installed directly without compilation from source, (2) the download is via a dynamic PHP script rather than a static file, making the checksum less reliably tied to a specific artifact (the server could theoretically serve different content), and (3) the sha512sum has only 127 hex characters instead of the required 128, suggesting a truncated/corrupted checksum that would fail verification. The truncated checksum is the most concrete issue — it means integrity verification may not work correctly. Overall this is a medium-risk pattern: official-looking upstream host but prebuilt binary with a potentially broken checksum.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Colin Arnott <colin@urandom.co.uk>
    
      2# Contributer: Salim Perchy <yamil-salim.perchy@inria.fr>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=icesl-beta
    
      5pkgver=2.5.0_beta3
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc="A GPU accelerated modeler and slicer for 3D printing"
    
      8arch=('x86_64')
    
      9url="http://shapeforge.loria.fr/icesl/"
    
      10license=('custom')
    
      11conflicts=('icesl')
    
      12provides=('icesl')
    
      13depends=('qt4' 'freeglut' 'glu' 'libpng' 'zlib' 'freetype2' 'libxext' 'perl')
    
      14source=("https://icesl.loria.fr/assets/other/download.php?build=${pkgver//_/-}&version=beta&os=amd64")
    
      15sha512sums=('045a6f190422383e0f8418a940bffd9f19e2af6b936febe0a57a99236a7c35d21fb85c9657baf36812479c5ff58975c5c8cd79c8565285eb849ec5d7bd1fc9b8')
    
      16
    
      17package() {
    
      18	mkdir -p $pkgdir/usr/{,bin,share{,/licenses}/${pkgname%-beta}}
    
      19	cp -a $srcdir/${pkgname%-beta}/ $pkgdir/usr/share/
    
      20	ln -s /usr/share/${pkgname%-beta}/copyright $pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname%-beta}/LICENSE
    
      21	ln -s /usr/share/${pkgname%-beta}/bin/IceSL-slicer $pkgdir/usr/bin/${pkgname%-beta}
    
      22}
    
      23

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