ps7b_libps6000a

LOW
maintainer Schorsch 0 votes scanned 2026-10-17 00:21:55.226236
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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from PicoTech's official labs domain for a specific hardware library; while the host is not a standard one, it is plausibly the project's own release infrastructure, and the worst case of a swap would be limited to malicious code execution via the library, but no obfuscation or additional remote execution is present.

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-2507) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from PicoTech's official labs domain for a specific hardware library; while the host is not a standard one, it is plausibly the project's own release infrastructure, and the worst case of a swap would be limited to malicious code execution via the library, but no obfuscation or additional remote execution is present.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:20 source=("https://labs.picotech.com/rc/picoscope7/debian/pool/main/libp/libps6000a/libps6000a_${pkgver//_/-}_amd64.deb")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Schorsch <wsixcde+aur at gmail dot com>
2# Thanks to <mti at tillenius dot com> whose packages the ps7b packages were based on
3pkgname=ps7b_libps6000a
4pkgver=2.1.3_0r232
5pkgrel=1
6pkgdesc="Library for PicoScope 6000a series in PicoScope 7 Beta"
7arch=('x86_64')
8url="https://labs.picotech.com/rc/picoscope7/debian/pool/main/libp/libps6000a/"
9license=('custom')
10groups=()
11depends=(libusb)
12optdepends=()
13provides=()
14conflicts=(ps7_libps6000a)
15replaces=()
16backup=()
17options=(!strip)
18install=$pkgname.install
19changelog=
20source=("https://labs.picotech.com/rc/picoscope7/debian/pool/main/libp/libps6000a/libps6000a_${pkgver//_/-}_amd64.deb")
21md5sums=('2eaf5d7c3682daa9eb75767600a261b2')
22
23package() {
24 tar -xf data.tar.* -C "${pkgdir}"
25 chmod -R go-w $pkgdir
26 chown -R root:root $pkgdir
27
28 mkdir -p $pkgdir/opt/picoscope/scripts
29 tar -xf control.tar.* -C "${pkgdir}/opt/picoscope/scripts" ./postinst
30 mv "${pkgdir}/opt/picoscope/scripts/postinst" "${pkgdir}/opt/picoscope/scripts/${pkgname}_postinst"
31
32 install -Dm644 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/libps6000a/copyright"
33}
34

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
2026-10-17 00:21:55 Low 2
2026-10-16 00:12:47 Low 2
2026-10-15 00:28:05 Low 2
2026-10-14 00:06:47 Low 2
2026-10-13 00:23:45 Low 2
2026-10-12 00:18:51 Low 2
2026-10-11 00:26:05 Low 2
2026-10-10 00:11:52 Low 2
2026-10-09 00:05:33 Low 2
2026-10-08 00:28:03 Low 2
2026-10-07 00:21:34 Low 2
2026-10-06 00:13:36 Low 2
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2026-10-04 00:18:08 Low 2
2026-10-03 00:23:04 Low 2
2026-10-02 00:00:32 Low 2
2026-10-01 00:02:06 Low 2
2026-09-30 00:20:07 Low 2
2026-09-29 00:07:46 Low 2
2026-09-28 00:28:32 Low 2

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