markdown-html-git

MEDIUM

maintainer gameplayer 0 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt tarball (pkg.tar.gz) from a personal/unofficial host (markdown.chimmie.k.vu) with sha256sums set to 'SKIP', meaning no integrity verification is performed. The tarball is then extracted and its contents are copied directly into the package root (cp -rv * ${pkgdir}/), including executables placed in /usr/bin/ that are chmod +x'd. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: the downloaded binary artifact is unverified, comes from a non-standard personal host, and installs executable code system-wide. The pkgver() function uses the sha256 of the downloaded tarball as a version string, which is an unusual pattern that does not substitute for a proper checksum in sha256sums. The combination of SKIP checksum, personal host, and direct installation of prebuilt executables constitutes a real medium-severity supply-chain 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:34 "https://markdown.chimmie.k.vu/packages/zst/pkg.tar.gz"

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 85%): This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt tarball (pkg.tar.gz) from a personal/unofficial host (markdown.chimmie.k.vu) with sha256sums set to 'SKIP', meaning no integrity verification is performed. The tarball is then extracted and its contents are copied directly into the package root (cp -rv * ${pkgdir}/), including executables placed in /usr/bin/ that are chmod +x'd. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: the downloaded binary artifact is unverified, comes from a non-standard personal host, and installs executable code system-wide. The pkgver() function uses the sha256 of the downloaded tarball as a version string, which is an unusual pattern that does not substitute for a proper checksum in sha256sums. The combination of SKIP checksum, personal host, and direct installation of prebuilt executables constitutes a real medium-severity supply-chain risk.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Chimmie Firefly <gameplayer2019pl (at) tutamail (dot) com>
    
      2pkgname=markdown-html-git
    
      3_pkgname=markdown-html-git
    
      4pkgver=0
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc='A Shell-based markdown to html solution.'
    
      7
    
      8arch=(
    
      9	'any'
    
      10)
    
      11
    
      12url="https://markdown.chimmie.k.vu"
    
      13license=('Akini 3.1')
    
      14
    
      15depends=(
    
      16    'sed'
    
      17    'gawk'
    
      18    'coreutils'
    
      19)
    
      20
    
      21makedepends=(
    
      22    'pacman'
    
      23)
    
      24
    
      25provides=(
    
      26	'markdown-html'
    
      27)
    
      28
    
      29conflicts=(
    
      30	'markdown-html'
    
      31)
    
      32
    
      33source=(
    
      34    "https://markdown.chimmie.k.vu/packages/zst/pkg.tar.gz"
    
      35)
    
      36
    
      37noextract=("pkg.tar.gz")
    
      38
    
      39sha256sums=(
    
      40    'SKIP'
    
      41)
    
      42
    
      43pkgver() {
    
      44    cd "${srcdir}"
    
      45    echo 'r'"$(sha256sum pkg.tar.gz | cut -d ' ' -f 1)"
    
      46}
    
      47
    
      48build() {
    
      49	cd "${srcdir}"
    
      50	tar -xvf pkg.tar.gz
    
      51    mv default-fs "${pkgname}"
    
      52    
    
      53}
    
      54
    
      55package() {
    
      56    cd "${srcdir}"
    
      57	cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}"
    
      58    mkdir -p "${pkgdir}" 2>/dev/null 3>&2
    
      59    cp -rv * "${pkgdir}/"
    
      60    chmod +x "${pkgdir}"/usr/bin/*
    
      61}
    
      62

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2026-11-01 00:21:48	Medium	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Medium	2
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