lidarview

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

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary tarball from Google Drive (drive.usercontent.google.com) and installs it directly under /opt. Google Drive is not a canonical release host — the file can be replaced by the Drive account owner at any time without changing the URL, and the sha256sum provided (which appears to be 63 hex chars, one short of a valid SHA-256) offers weak integrity assurance. The upstream project (Kitware/LidarView on GitLab) does host official releases, but this PKGBUILD pulls from a personal/unofficial Google Drive share rather than the GitLab release assets. Installing an unverified prebuilt binary that runs as the user constitutes a real supply-chain risk. The SVG icon uses SKIP for its checksum, which is minor. Overall this is a genuine medium: executed binary from an unofficial/swappable host with questionable integrity verification.

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:17 source=("${_archive}-Linux.tar.gz::https://drive.usercontent.google.com/download?id=${_gdrive_id}&export=download&confirm=t"

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 78%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary tarball from Google Drive (drive.usercontent.google.com) and installs it directly under /opt. Google Drive is not a canonical release host — the file can be replaced by the Drive account owner at any time without changing the URL, and the sha256sum provided (which appears to be 63 hex chars, one short of a valid SHA-256) offers weak integrity assurance. The upstream project (Kitware/LidarView on GitLab) does host official releases, but this PKGBUILD pulls from a personal/unofficial Google Drive share rather than the GitLab release assets. Installing an unverified prebuilt binary that runs as the user constitutes a real supply-chain risk. The SVG icon uses SKIP for its checksum, which is minor. Overall this is a genuine medium: executed binary from an unofficial/swappable host with questionable integrity verification.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Dmitry Golgowski <d.westcoast@aol.com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=lidarview
    
      4pkgver=5.2.0
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="Real-time reception, recording, visualization and processing of 3D LiDAR data (successor to VeloView)"
    
      7arch=(x86_64)
    
      8license=(Apache-2.0)
    
      9url="https://lidarview.kitware.com"
    
      10depends=('libglvnd' 'libxcb' 'libxkbcommon' 'dbus')
    
      11makedepends=(gendesk)
    
      12optdepends=('nvidia-utils: NVIDIA GPU acceleration')
    
      13# Upstream hosts binaries on Google Drive
    
      14# Release page: https://gitlab.kitware.com/LidarView/lidarview/-/releases
    
      15_gdrive_id=1T2-e2nACjePKYZZpS1ds-K1t_rhMjhZA
    
      16_archive="LidarView-${pkgver}"
    
      17source=("${_archive}-Linux.tar.gz::https://drive.usercontent.google.com/download?id=${_gdrive_id}&export=download&confirm=t"
    
      18        "lidarview.svg::https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Kitware/LidarView/master/Application/Client/Resources/Images/LidarViewLogo.svg")
    
      19sha256sums=('b1747057eef17c0569aa76a21433aea09446202128221c5399b6fa79f2da9e13'
    
      20            'SKIP')
    
      21
    
      22prepare() {
    
      23  gendesk --pkgname=LidarView --pkgdesc="$pkgdesc" --exec=/opt/lidarview/bin/LidarView --categories="Science;DataVisualization" PKGBUILD
    
      24}
    
      25
    
      26package() {
    
      27  install -dm755 "$pkgdir"/opt/lidarview
    
      28  cp -a --no-preserve=ownership "$srcdir"/${_archive}/{bin,lib,plugins,share} "$pkgdir"/opt/lidarview/
    
      29
    
      30  install -dm755 "$pkgdir"/usr/bin
    
      31  ln -s /opt/lidarview/bin/LidarView "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/lidarview
    
      32  ln -s /opt/lidarview/bin/PacketFileSender "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/lidarview-packetsender
    
      33
    
      34  install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/LidarView.desktop -t "$pkgdir"/usr/share/applications
    
      35  install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/lidarview.svg "$pkgdir"/usr/share/pixmaps/LidarView.svg
    
      36}
    
      37

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