sigfox-radio-signal-analyzer

MEDIUM

maintainer maximevince 0 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt ISO from support.sigfox.com (an official Sigfox support portal) outside the source array with no checksum verification, extracts a squashfs filesystem from it, and installs prebuilt proprietary binaries and shared libraries directly into the system. The concerns are: (1) no integrity verification — the ISO is fetched with wget outside source=() so makepkg's checksum mechanism never runs, meaning a MITM or server-side substitution would go undetected; (2) prebuilt closed-source binaries and shared libraries (librsvisa.so, radio_signal_analyzer_pb, etc.) are installed without any audit trail; (3) the source host, while nominally official Sigfox support infrastructure, is not a standard upstream release mirror and the URL is an opaque numeric ID. The combination of unverified prebuilt executables and shared libraries installed system-wide constitutes a genuine supply-chain risk. The cheaper model's MEDIUM rating is correct. It is not HIGH because there is no evidence of active malice, obfuscation, or exfiltration — it appears to be a legitimate but poorly packaged proprietary tool from the actual vendor.

Triggered rules

Medium External download from an untrusted host, not in source=() external_download_not_in_source

curl/wget fetches a URL on a non-allowlisted host that is not part of source=(), so it is not checksum-verified by makepkg.

PKGBUILD:17 wget -c https://support.sigfox.com/files/5e6202f04f6f67c0396574bb -O sigfox_rsa.iso

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 82%): This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt ISO from support.sigfox.com (an official Sigfox support portal) outside the source array with no checksum verification, extracts a squashfs filesystem from it, and installs prebuilt proprietary binaries and shared libraries directly into the system. The concerns are: (1) no integrity verification — the ISO is fetched with wget outside source=() so makepkg's checksum mechanism never runs, meaning a MITM or server-side substitution would go undetected; (2) prebuilt closed-source binaries and shared libraries (librsvisa.so, radio_signal_analyzer_pb, etc.) are installed without any audit trail; (3) the source host, while nominally official Sigfox support infrastructure, is not a standard upstream release mirror and the URL is an opaque numeric ID. The combination of unverified prebuilt executables and shared libraries installed system-wide constitutes a genuine supply-chain risk. The cheaper model's MEDIUM rating is correct. It is not HIGH because there is no evidence of active malice, obfuscation, or exfiltration — it appears to be a legitimate but poorly packaged proprietary tool from the actual vendor.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Maxime Vincent <maxime.vince@gmail.com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=sigfox-radio-signal-analyzer
    
      4pkgver=2.0.1
    
      5pkgrel=2
    
      6pkgdesc='Sigfox Radio Signal Analyser for use with Sigfox SDR stick'
    
      7arch=(i686 x86_64)
    
      8license=(GPL)
    
      9depends=('fftw' 'qt5-svg' 'alsa-lib')
    
      10makedepends=('squashfs-tools' 'cdrtools')
    
      11source=()
    
      12sha256sums=()
    
      13
    
      14prepare() {
    
      15    mkdir -p  iso
    
      16    cd iso
    
      17    wget -c https://support.sigfox.com/files/5e6202f04f6f67c0396574bb -O sigfox_rsa.iso
    
      18    isoinfo -i sigfox_rsa.iso --find -name "FILESYSTEM.SQUASHFS*" -print 2>/dev/null | xargs isoinfo -i sigfox_rsa.iso -x > filesystem.squashfs
    
      19}
    
      20
    
      21build() {
    
      22    echo Build
    
      23}
    
      24
    
      25package() {
    
      26    if [ -d "$srcdir"/unsq ]; then
    
      27        echo "Already unsquashed. Skipping unsquashfs"
    
      28    else
    
      29        unsquashfs -d "$srcdir"/unsq iso/filesystem.squashfs
    
      30    fi
    
      31    mkdir -p "$pkgdir"/usr/
    
      32    mkdir -p "$pkgdir"/usr/bin
    
      33    mkdir -p "$pkgdir"/usr/local
    
      34    mkdir -p "$pkgdir"/usr/local/bin
    
      35    mkdir -p "$pkgdir"/usr/local/bin/sigfox_verified/
    
      36
    
      37    # Many /usr/local/bin paths are hardcoded in the binary, so we should copy them as well
    
      38    cp -r "$srcdir"/unsq/usr/local/bin/sigfox_verified "$pkgdir"/usr/local/bin/
    
      39
    
      40    # Copy from /usr/local/lib to /usr/lib (The Arch Way)
    
      41    cp -r "$srcdir"/unsq/usr/local/lib "$pkgdir"/usr/
    
      42    cp "$srcdir"/unsq/usr/lib/librsvisa.so "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/
    
      43
    
      44    # Re-create symlink
    
      45    rm -rf  "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/radio_signal_analyzer_pb
    
      46    ln -s /usr/local/bin/sigfox_verified/radio_signal_analyzer_pb "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/radio_signal_analyzer_pb
    
      47
    
      48    # Remove unused directories that got copied
    
      49    rm -rf "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages
    
      50    rm -rf "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/python3.5/dist-packages
    
      51    rm -rf "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
    
      52    rm -rf "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/python3.5
    
      53    rm -rf "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/python2.7
    
      54
    
      55    #install -Dm644 bin/radio_signal_analyzer "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/radio_signal_analyzer
    
      56    #install -Dm644 bin/sigfox_verified "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/
    
      57    libtool --finish /usr/lib
    
      58}
    
      59
    
      60

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Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Medium	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Medium	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Medium	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Medium	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Medium	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Medium	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Medium	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Medium	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Medium	2
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2026-10-22 00:13:10	Medium	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Medium	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Medium	2
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2026-10-18 00:06:55	Medium	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Medium	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Medium	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Medium	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Medium	2
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Medium	2