quartus-standard

maintainer ahkneipp · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The source is a prebuilt installer from Altera's official download domain (download.altera.com), which is a legitimate vendor host; the package installs the official software without obfuscation or remote code execution, so the non-whitelisted host is a false alarm.

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 source is a prebuilt installer from Altera's official download domain (download.altera.com), which is a legitimate vendor host; the package installs the official software without obfuscation or remote code execution, so the non-whitelisted host is a false alarm.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:24 source=("http://download.altera.com/akdlm/software/acdsinst/18.1std/625/ib_installers/QuartusSetup-18.1.0.625-linux.run"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Submitter: Zesen Qian <quartus at riaqn dot org>
    
      2# Maintainer: Sequencer <liujiuyang1994 at gmail dot com>
    
      3#
    
      4# NOTE: If you plan on using the usbblaster make sure you are member of the plugdev group.
    
      5# NOTE: Altera has dramatically changed their packing in regards to version 12. This
    
      6#       PKGBUILD will install the full Altera suite now. Be aware that the space requirement
    
      7#       is around 13GB.
    
      8#
    
      9pkgname=quartus-standard
    
      10pkgver=18.1.0.625
    
      11pkgrel=1
    
      12pkgdesc="Quartus Prime Standard Edition design software for Altera FPGA's. Modular package"
    
      13arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
    
      14url="http://dl.altera.com/?edition=standard"
    
      15license=('custom')
    
      16
    
      17_alteradir="/opt/altera"
    
      18
    
      19depends=('desktop-file-utils' 'expat' 'fontconfig' 'freetype2'
    
      20'glibc' 'gtk2' 'libcanberra' 'libpng' 'libpng12' 'libice' 'libsm'
    
      21'util-linux' 'ncurses' 'tcl' 'tcllib' 'zlib' 'libx11' 'libxau'
    
      22'libxdmcp' 'libxext' 'libxft' 'libxrender' 'libxt' 'libxtst' 'lsb-release')
    
      23
    
      24source=("http://download.altera.com/akdlm/software/acdsinst/18.1std/625/ib_installers/QuartusSetup-18.1.0.625-linux.run"
    
      25        "quartus.sh"
    
      26        "quartus.desktop"
    
      27        "51-usbblaster.rules"
    
      28        "quartus.install")
    
      29sha256sums=('e5b256326bb00eadd3c646e285fe91844a0faccdec306c03288b920edc622a8f'
    
      30            '849dd042a6173bb4f97a9522b51935bd3069a3313fe963ae19dcf4c25331b291'
    
      31            'eade659fda0db843a5b287502415c698c4f251f3b721836e2a56911896fc2371'
    
      32            'dd9d33fa2698a0ec11ae86f4508f77e2e12bf4a21224f5b16640bc41d6c0999b'
    
      33            '0e815b138bcec2d1f9c6aa498d2f56cc131417119af19016a2019173da526d9b')
    
      34
    
      35options=(!strip) # Stripping and UPX will takes ages, I'd avoid it.
    
      36install='quartus.install'
    
      37PKGEXT=".pkg.tar" # Do not compress
    
      38prepare() {
    
      39    cd "${srcdir}"
    
      40    chmod a+x "QuartusSetup-${pkgver}-linux.run"
    
      41}
    
      42
    
      43package() {
    
      44    cd "${srcdir}"
    
      45    echo "Running QuartusSetup-${pkgver}-linux.run"
    
      46    DISPLAY="" ./"QuartusSetup-${pkgver}-linux.run" --accept_eula 1 --mode unattended --unattendedmodeui none --installdir "${pkgdir}${_alteradir}" &
    
      47    while [ ! -f "${pkgdir}${_alteradir}/logs/quartus-${pkgver}-linux-install.log" ]; do
    
      48        echo -n "."
    
      49	sync
    
      50        sleep 10
    
      51    done
    
      52	echo
    
      53    echo "base package packaged"
    
      54    # Remove uninstaller and install logs since we have a working package management
    
      55    echo "remove useless package"
    
      56    rm -r "${pkgdir}${_alteradir}/uninstall"
    
      57    rm -r "${pkgdir}${_alteradir}/logs"
    
      58
    
      59    # Replace altera directory in integration files
    
      60    sed -i.bak "s,_alteradir,$_alteradir,g" quartus.sh
    
      61    sed -i.bak "s,_alteradir,$_alteradir,g" quartus.desktop
    
      62
    
      63    # Copy license file
    
      64    install -D -m644 "${pkgdir}${_alteradir}/licenses/license.txt" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgnam}/license.txt"
    
      65
    
      66    # Install integration files
    
      67    install -D -m755 quartus.sh "${pkgdir}/etc/profile.d/quartus.sh"
    
      68    install -D -m644 51-usbblaster.rules "${pkgdir}/etc/udev/rules.d/51-usbblaster.rules"
    
      69    install -D -m644 quartus.desktop "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/quartus.desktop"
    
      70}
    
      71

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2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
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2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	2
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2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	2
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2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	2
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