spark-winfonts

maintainer Melorise · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
LOW
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Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from mirrors.sdu.edu.cn (Shandong University mirror, a well-known Chinese academic mirror that hosts the Spark Store repository). The content is purely font files (Windows/MS Office fonts) — no executed binaries, no scripts run at build time beyond bsdtar extraction. The md5sums=('SKIP') is sloppy and means no integrity verification, which is a minor concern, but the host is a reputable Chinese university mirror rather than a random personal server. The fonts themselves are data files processed only by fontconfig. The PKGBUILD also has a minor bug (it extracts data.tar.xz without first extracting it from the .deb), making it likely broken in practice. The cheaper model's MEDIUM rating is a false positive — pure font data from a university mirror with no code execution is at most low risk, primarily due to the missing checksum.

Triggered rules

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 82%): The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from mirrors.sdu.edu.cn (Shandong University mirror, a well-known Chinese academic mirror that hosts the Spark Store repository). The content is purely font files (Windows/MS Office fonts) — no executed binaries, no scripts run at build time beyond bsdtar extraction. The md5sums=('SKIP') is sloppy and means no integrity verification, which is a minor concern, but the host is a reputable Chinese university mirror rather than a random personal server. The fonts themselves are data files processed only by fontconfig. The PKGBUILD also has a minor bug (it extracts data.tar.xz without first extracting it from the .deb), making it likely broken in practice. The cheaper model's MEDIUM rating is a false positive — pure font data from a university mirror with no code execution is at most low risk, primarily due to the missing checksum.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:9 source=("https://mirrors.sdu.edu.cn/spark-store/amd64-store/others/winfonts/winfonts_1.4_all.deb")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: KafuuNagi <welcome-come-on@outlook.com>
2pkgname=spark-winfonts
3pkgver=1.4
4pkgrel=1
5pkgdesc="Fonts in Windows and MS Office, comes from spark-store"
6arch=('any')
7license=('custom')
8depends=('fontconfig')
9source=("https://mirrors.sdu.edu.cn/spark-store/amd64-store/others/winfonts/winfonts_1.4_all.deb")
10md5sums=('SKIP')
11
12package() {
13 bsdtar -xzf data.tar.xz -C "$pkgdir"
14}
15
16post_install() {
17 fc-cache -fv
18}
19
20post_upgrade() {
21 post_install
22}
23
24post_remove() {
25 fc-cache -fv
26}
27

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