pololu-maestro

LOW
maintainer mickael9 1 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785
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Why flagged

The package downloads a source tarball from the official Pololu domain (pololu.com) which is the project's vendor, making it a legitimate and expected source despite not being on a whitelist; the tarball is checksummed and contains buildable source files, not an untrusted prebuilt binary.

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 source tarball from the official Pololu domain (pololu.com) which is the project's vendor, making it a legitimate and expected source despite not being on a whitelist; the tarball is checksummed and contains buildable source files, not an untrusted prebuilt binary.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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=("maestro_linux_${pkgver}.tar.gz::http://www.pololu.com/file/download/maestro_linux_${pkgver}.tar.gz?file_id=${_fileid}"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: mickael9 <mickael9 at gmail dot com>
2pkgname=pololu-maestro
3pkgver=220509
4_fileid=0J315
5pkgrel=1
6pkgdesc="Pololu Maestro Control Center"
7arch=(i686 x86_64)
8url="http://www.pololu.com/docs/0J40/3.b"
9license=('unknown')
10depends=('mono')
11
12source=("maestro_linux_${pkgver}.tar.gz::http://www.pololu.com/file/download/maestro_linux_${pkgver}.tar.gz?file_id=${_fileid}"
13 "UscCmd"
14 "MaestroControlCenter")
15
16sha256sums=('39c758838704464db829fadc0c5d78698ab21b0dc816fd7555cda611b80cf756'
17 '6d6b794b78e55809c6c6f71fa80c72ad88a012bce5eeb4d71c9eb93019fe3d1f'
18 'bec46aeaf69f6f547c867d8fc989eec3e43f8bce944d68ba99ad25e74581f641')
19
20package() {
21 cd "$srcdir/maestro-linux"
22
23 install -D "99-pololu.rules" "${pkgdir}/etc/udev/rules.d/99-pololu.rules"
24 rm "99-pololu.rules"
25
26 install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/maestro_linux/"
27 install -t "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/maestro_linux/" *
28
29 install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
30 install -t "${pkgdir}/usr/bin" "${srcdir}/UscCmd"
31 install -t "${pkgdir}/usr/bin" "${srcdir}/MaestroControlCenter"
32}
33
34# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
35

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Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
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