papirus-paleorange-icon-theme

maintainer tsbarnes · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt icon theme tarball from Dropbox. While Dropbox is not an official distribution channel, this is a common pattern for AUR packages hosting assets on personal file-sharing services. The content is pure icon/image data (an icon theme), not an executed binary or compiled code — it is installed as static files under /usr/share/icons. The md5sums checksum is provided (though MD5 is weak, it still provides basic integrity verification). There is no code execution of the downloaded content. The risk is low: if the Dropbox link were replaced, the checksum would catch it. The main concern is link rot or checksum weakness, not active supply-chain attack. This is sloppy packaging (unofficial host, weak hash, unknown license) but not a meaningful security risk.

Triggered rules

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 82%): The package downloads a prebuilt icon theme tarball from Dropbox. While Dropbox is not an official distribution channel, this is a common pattern for AUR packages hosting assets on personal file-sharing services. The content is pure icon/image data (an icon theme), not an executed binary or compiled code — it is installed as static files under /usr/share/icons. The md5sums checksum is provided (though MD5 is weak, it still provides basic integrity verification). There is no code execution of the downloaded content. The risk is low: if the Dropbox link were replaced, the checksum would catch it. The main concern is link rot or checksum weakness, not active supply-chain attack. This is sloppy packaging (unofficial host, weak hash, unknown license) but not a meaningful security risk.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:18 source=("https://www.dropbox.com/s/eyv26chd3qew1ir/Papirus-Paleorange_20210802.tar.gz")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# This is an example PKGBUILD file. Use this as a start to creating your own,
    
      2# and remove these comments. For more information, see 'man PKGBUILD'.
    
      3# NOTE: Please fill out the license field for your package! If it is unknown,
    
      4# then please put 'unknown'.
    
      5
    
      6# Maintainer: Your Name <youremail@domain.com>
    
      7pkgname=papirus-paleorange-icon-theme
    
      8pkgver=20210802
    
      9pkgrel=1
    
      10pkgdesc="Papirus-Paleorange icon theme"
    
      11arch=('any')
    
      12url="https://www.pling.com/p/1549558"
    
      13license=('Unknown')
    
      14makedepends=('gtk-update-icon-cache')
    
      15provides=("${pkgname}")
    
      16conflicts=("${pkgname}" "${pkgname}-git")
    
      17options=('!strip')
    
      18source=("https://www.dropbox.com/s/eyv26chd3qew1ir/Papirus-Paleorange_20210802.tar.gz")
    
      19md5sums=("cc11c414778ee2e798c20a23c223ff7c")
    
      20
    
      21package() {
    
      22	mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons"
    
      23	cp -r Papirus-Paleorange "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/"
    
      24}
    
      25

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	LOW	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	LOW	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	LOW	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	LOW	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	2