pylon

LOW
maintainer trallafitti 5 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The package downloads a source tarball from Microsoft Azure Blob Storage (Basler's official hosting), which is not on the whitelist but is plausibly the project's legitimate distribution channel; the payload is a self-contained installer for a proprietary camera suite, built and installed locally without remote code execution or obfuscation.

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 Microsoft Azure Blob Storage (Basler's official hosting), which is not on the whitelist but is plausibly the project's legitimate distribution channel; the payload is a self-contained installer for a proprietary camera suite, built and installed locally without remote code execution or obfuscation.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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 "https://downloadbsl.blob.core.windows.net/software/${pkgname}-${pkgver}_linux-${CARCH}_setup.tar.gz"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Eike Gebauer <eike(at)zettelkiste.de>
2# Contributor: Maarten de Vries <maarten@de-vri.es>
3
4pkgname=pylon
5pkgdesc="Basler camera Software suite"
6pkgver="8.0.2.16314"
7pkgrel=1
8arch=(x86_64)
9license=(custom)
10url="https://www.baslerweb.com/en/downloads/software-downloads/#os=linuxx8664bit;type=pylonsoftware"
11
12options=(!strip)
13
14depends=(fontconfig freetype2 mesa-utils libice libsm libusb libx11 libxcb xcb-util xcb-util-image xcb-util-keysyms xcb-util-renderutil libxext libxkbcommon zlib ld-lsb)
15makedepends=(patchelf)
16
17source=(
18 "https://downloadbsl.blob.core.windows.net/software/${pkgname}-${pkgver}_linux-${CARCH}_setup.tar.gz"
19 "LICENSE"
20)
21
22
23sha512sums=(
24 'aea057c1ddf2c0eea88c2b32179eb76d3a6bc8b570d43ba80d9c293d8cbdf807f5ad45eea2fb76a03b17628a6c59df7e3ca6ed993e8e661e12f263ee8e49c224'
25 'a88072c34d5b18ebbdcc3003c7bbd899f81557500f963cda988239df7e692637fe29948b866fe80341b28c4820e1593f35fe37473de9ba35f7de8a8b31601ae1'
26)
27
28_dir="$pkgname_$pkgver_$CARCH"
29
30prepare() {
31 mkdir -p "$srcdir/$_dir"
32 cd "$srcdir/$_dir"
33 bsdtar -xf "../${pkgname}-${pkgver}_linux-${CARCH}_setup.tar.gz"
34 bsdtar -xf "${pkgname}-${pkgver}_linux-${CARCH}.tar.gz"
35}
36
37_shrink_rpaths() {
38 for file in "$@"; do
39 local type="$(file -hb "$file")"
40 [[ "${type:0:4}" = "ELF " ]] || continue
41 patchelf --shrink-rpath "$file"
42 done
43}
44
45package() {
46 cd "$srcdir/$_dir"
47
48 mkdir -p "$pkgdir/opt/pylon"
49 cp -a --no-preserve=ownership "$srcdir/$_dir/"{bin,include,lib,share,INSTALL} "$pkgdir/opt/pylon"
50 install -m 644 -Dt "$pkgdir/usr/lib/udev/rules.d" "$srcdir/$_dir/share/pylon/69-basler-cameras.rules"
51 install -m 644 -Dt "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/" "$srcdir/LICENSE"
52
53 _shrink_rpaths "$pkgdir/opt/pylon/lib/"*
54 _shrink_rpaths "$pkgdir/opt/pylon/bin/"*
55}
56

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