nvidia-mft

MEDIUM

maintainer mazieres 1 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt .deb archive from a non-whitelisted host (mellanox.com), which is plausibly official but not verifiable via standard trust mechanisms; the archive is extracted and installed without additional code execution checks, posing a supply-chain risk if the source were compromised.

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:24 source=("https://www.mellanox.com/downloads/MFT/mft-${pkgver}-${pkgverrel}-x86_64-deb.tgz")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt .deb archive from a non-whitelisted host (mellanox.com), which is plausibly official but not verifiable via standard trust mechanisms; the archive is extracted and installed without additional code execution checks, posing a supply-chain risk if the source were compromised.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: David Mazieres (http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/addr/)
    
      2pkgname=nvidia-mft
    
      3pkgver=4.36.0
    
      4pkgverrel=147
    
      5pkgversarch="${pkgver}-${pkgverrel}-$(uname -m)"
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7epoch=
    
      8pkgdesc="NVIDIA Mellanox firmware tools (MFT)"
    
      9arch=(x86_64)
    
      10url="https://network.nvidia.com/products/adapter-software/firmware-tools/"
    
      11license=('custom')
    
      12groups=()
    
      13depends=(dkms usbutils python)
    
      14makedepends=()
    
      15checkdepends=()
    
      16optdepends=(linux-firmware-mellanox rdma-core linux-headers linux-lts-headers)
    
      17provides=()
    
      18conflicts=()
    
      19replaces=()
    
      20backup=()
    
      21options=(!strip)
    
      22install=
    
      23changelog=
    
      24source=("https://www.mellanox.com/downloads/MFT/mft-${pkgver}-${pkgverrel}-x86_64-deb.tgz")
    
      25noextract=()
    
      26b2sums=('d2652a34c3294b1505102c51ec728641aca122343c5c5d94e8f942878931f1cc69f9a27e2f12ea1851f0dd5a8d10e1be532ea41fb110975f4855cc4247a61dd3')
    
      27
    
      28package() {
    
      29    for deb in mft-${pkgversarch}-deb/*DEBS/*.deb; do
    
      30	bsdtar xOf "$deb" data.tar.gz data.tar.gz | bsdtar xC "$pkgdir"
    
      31    done
    
      32
    
      33    cd "$pkgdir"
    
      34    sed -ie 's/(arch)/(uname -m)/' usr/src/kernel-mft-dkms-*/dkms.conf
    
      35    rm -rf usr/lib
    
      36    mv usr/lib64 usr/lib
    
      37}
    
      38

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Medium	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Medium	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Medium	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Medium	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Medium	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Medium	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Medium	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Medium	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Medium	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Medium	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Medium	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Medium	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Medium	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Medium	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Medium	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Medium	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Medium	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Medium	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Medium	2
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Medium	2