poplog-git

MEDIUM

maintainer orphaned 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD pulls a prebuilt binary archive 'packages-V16.tar.bz2' from cs.bham.ac.uk over plain HTTP (not HTTPS) with no checksum verification (SKIP). This archive is then copied into the build tree and used during compilation/installation. While cs.bham.ac.uk is a legitimate UK university host associated with the Poplog project (Aaron Sloman at Birmingham is a well-known Poplog contributor), the combination of: (1) plain HTTP download susceptible to MITM, (2) no integrity check (SKIP sha256sum), and (3) the archive containing executed/compiled code that gets installed, constitutes a genuine supply-chain risk. The git source also uses SKIP, though git+https is somewhat self-authenticating via the remote. The HTTP+SKIP combination for a binary archive is a real medium-severity concern regardless of the host's legitimacy.

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:17 "http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/V16/DL/packages-V16.tar.bz2"

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The PKGBUILD pulls a prebuilt binary archive 'packages-V16.tar.bz2' from cs.bham.ac.uk over plain HTTP (not HTTPS) with no checksum verification (SKIP). This archive is then copied into the build tree and used during compilation/installation. While cs.bham.ac.uk is a legitimate UK university host associated with the Poplog project (Aaron Sloman at Birmingham is a well-known Poplog contributor), the combination of: (1) plain HTTP download susceptible to MITM, (2) no integrity check (SKIP sha256sum), and (3) the archive containing executed/compiled code that gets installed, constitutes a genuine supply-chain risk. The git source also uses SKIP, though git+https is somewhat self-authenticating via the remote. The HTTP+SKIP combination for a binary archive is a real medium-severity concern regardless of the host's legitimacy.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Will Price <willprice94@gmail.com>
    
      2# Contributor: Aaron Sloman <a.sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk>
    
      3# Contributor: Steve Leach <sfkleach@gmail.com>
    
      4
    
      5pkgname=poplog-git
    
      6pkgver=v0.3.0.r136.gb4d3163
    
      7pkgrel=2
    
      8pkgdesc="poplog development system"
    
      9arch=('x86_64')
    
      10url="https://getpoplog.github.io/"
    
      11license=('custom:poplog')
    
      12depends=('tcsh' 'libxext' 'libxt' 'openmotif' 'libxp' 'ncurses5-compat-libs')
    
      13optdepends=('espeak: for run-speaking-eliza demo')
    
      14conflicts=(poplog)
    
      15source=(
    
      16    "git+https://github.com/GetPoplog/Seed"
    
      17    "http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/V16/DL/packages-V16.tar.bz2"
    
      18)
    
      19sha256sums=(
    
      20    'SKIP'
    
      21    'SKIP'
    
      22)
    
      23
    
      24_prefix=/opt
    
      25_bindir=/usr/bin
    
      26prepare() {
    
      27  cd "$srcdir/Seed"
    
      28
    
      29  mkdir -p "$srcdir/Seed/_download"
    
      30  cp "$srcdir/packages-V16.tar.bz2" "$srcdir/Seed/_download"
    
      31  touch "$srcdir/Seed/_download/Packages.Downloaded.proxy"
    
      32}
    
      33
    
      34build() {
    
      35  cd "$srcdir/Seed"
    
      36  make bindir="$_bindir" prefix="$_prefix"
    
      37}
    
      38
    
      39package() {
    
      40  echo "$pkgdir"
    
      41  mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/share/man/man1"
    
      42
    
      43  cd "$srcdir/Seed"
    
      44  make install DESTDIR="$pkgdir" prefix="$_prefix" bindir="$_bindir"
    
      45
    
      46  for f in "$pkgdir/$_prefix/share/poplog/current_usepop/pop/doc/man/"*; do
    
      47    ln -s -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/man/man1" "${f##$pkgdir}"
    
      48  done 
    
      49}
    
      50
    
      51pkgver() {
    
      52  cd "$srcdir/Seed"
    
      53  git describe --long | sed 's/\([^-]*-g\)/r\1/;s/-/./g'
    
      54}
    
      55
    
      56# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
    
      57

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2026-09-16 00:03:17	Medium	2
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2026-09-13 00:19:54	Medium	2
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2026-09-06 00:17:06	Medium	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Medium	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Medium	2
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