ocz-ssd-utility

LOW

maintainer Muflone 14 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt binary from a plausibly official but non-whitelisted host (personal.kioxia.com, Kioxia's domain); the source is a closed-source GUI utility, not executed at build time, and the worst case of a swapped binary is limited to post-install misuse, not build-time code execution.

Triggered rules

Low AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt binary from a plausibly official but non-whitelisted host (personal.kioxia.com, Kioxia's domain); the source is a closed-source GUI utility, not executed at build time, and the worst case of a swapped binary is limited to post-install misuse, not build-time code execution.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

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:12 source=("https://personal.kioxia.com/content/dam/kioxia/shared/software/legacy-ssd-utility/SSDUtility_${pkgver}_Linux.zip"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Muflone http://www.muflone.com/contacts/english/
    
      2# Contributor: jdarch <jda -dot- cloud -plus- archlinux -at- gmail -dot- com>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=ocz-ssd-utility
    
      5pkgver=2.3.2963
    
      6pkgrel=3
    
      7pkgdesc="A GUI based tool for managing OCZ SSD including firmware and BIOS updates."
    
      8arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
    
      9url="https://ocz.com/us/download/"
    
      10license=('custom:OCZ EULA')
    
      11depends=('libxrender' 'fontconfig' 'libgl')
    
      12source=("https://personal.kioxia.com/content/dam/kioxia/shared/software/legacy-ssd-utility/SSDUtility_${pkgver}_Linux.zip"
    
      13        "${pkgname}.desktop"
    
      14        "${pkgname}.png"
    
      15        "${pkgname}_polkit"
    
      16        "org.archlinux.pkexec.${pkgname}.policy")
    
      17sha256sums=('cd5b535bd081457057a12103ce6e3992f5ec45db122a60d2574b0a1778889fcc'
    
      18            '69dd55520a01972e74d421d68afd5673bf4835f618b2e671880c6f9497fe1ce2'
    
      19            'a5bab72e67578ceabf29e081063b00b1e1c3c2b9419fcbf888f3c24e65cf1035'
    
      20            'db802f83d5e9e09f5691669e1bc0b1e3191e4243b26784558ae0aa530d974336'
    
      21            '975b153475f98aa177cdd6911a549c07dee9ce5b15877a396be0a4e20414a2bf')
    
      22
    
      23build() {
    
      24  bsdtar -xf "SSDUtility_${pkgver}.tar.gz"
    
      25}
    
      26
    
      27package() {
    
      28  # Install policy file
    
      29  install -m 755 -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/polkit-1/actions"
    
      30  install -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/polkit-1/actions" "org.archlinux.pkexec.${pkgname}.policy"
    
      31  # Install launcher script
    
      32  install -m 755 -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      33  install -m 755 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/bin" "${pkgname}_polkit"
    
      34  install -m 644 -D "${srcdir}/${pkgname}.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${pkgname}.desktop"
    
      35  install -m 644 -D "${srcdir}/${pkgname}.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps/${pkgname}.png"
    
      36  # Install license files
    
      37  cd "SSDUtility"
    
      38  install -m 755 -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}"
    
      39  install -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}" "SSD_UTILITY_EULA_English.pdf"
    
      40  # Install files
    
      41  if [ "$CARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
    
      42    cd "linux64"
    
      43  else
    
      44    cd "linux32"
    
      45  fi
    
      46  install -m 755 "SSDUtility" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}"
    
      47}
    
      48

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Low	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Low	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Low	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Low	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Low	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Low	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Low	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Low	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Low	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Low	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Low	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Low	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Low	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Low	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Low	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Low	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Low	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Low	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Low	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Low	2