libevdevc

maintainer jansvendsen · 5 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
MEDIUM
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Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb package from apt.galliumos.org, which is the GalliumOS project's own apt repository. GalliumOS is a legitimate Linux distribution based on Xubuntu targeting Chromebooks, and libevdevc is indeed a Chromium OS libevdev fork maintained under the hugegreenbug GitHub account. However, the concern is real: this is a prebuilt binary (not source-compiled) pulled from a third-party apt mirror rather than from the upstream GitHub releases or built from source. The md5sums check provides weak integrity verification (MD5 is cryptographically broken). If apt.galliumos.org were compromised or the package substituted, arbitrary native code would be installed. This is a genuine supply-chain concern — an executed binary from a non-primary, non-official host — which justifies MEDIUM. It is not HIGH because GalliumOS is a known legitimate project and the URL is consistent with the package's stated origin, but the pattern of installing prebuilt binaries from a third-party apt repo without source compilation or stronger integrity checks (e.g., SHA256/GPG) is a real risk.

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:11 source=('https://apt.galliumos.org/pool/main/libe/libevdevc/libevdevc_3.0_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 package from apt.galliumos.org, which is the GalliumOS project's own apt repository. GalliumOS is a legitimate Linux distribution based on Xubuntu targeting Chromebooks, and libevdevc is indeed a Chromium OS libevdev fork maintained under the hugegreenbug GitHub account. However, the concern is real: this is a prebuilt binary (not source-compiled) pulled from a third-party apt mirror rather than from the upstream GitHub releases or built from source. The md5sums check provides weak integrity verification (MD5 is cryptographically broken). If apt.galliumos.org were compromised or the package substituted, arbitrary native code would be installed. This is a genuine supply-chain concern — an executed binary from a non-primary, non-official host — which justifies MEDIUM. It is not HIGH because GalliumOS is a known legitimate project and the URL is consistent with the package's stated origin, but the pattern of installing prebuilt binaries from a third-party apt repo without source compilation or stronger integrity checks (e.g., SHA256/GPG) is a real risk.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1pkgname=libevdevc
2pkgdesc="Chromium OS libevdev"
3pkgver=3.0
4pkgrel=1
5arch=(x86_64)
6url="https://github.com/hugegreenbug/libevdevc"
7license=('custom:chromiumos')
8depends=('glibc')
9options=('!emptydirs' '!strip')
10
11source=('https://apt.galliumos.org/pool/main/libe/libevdevc/libevdevc_3.0_amd64.deb')
12md5sums=('1ddbb17b9bc38e61441e85d82a72bcc4')
13
14package() {
15 bsdtar -xf data.tar.xz -C "$pkgdir/"
16 install -Dm644 "$pkgdir"/usr/share/doc/libevdevc/copyright "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENCE
17}
18

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