spectraview2-bin

maintainer lbschenkel · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
LOW
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Why flagged The source is a prebuilt proprietary binary from a plausible project-related host (necds-engineering.com) used for NEC monitor color management; while the host is not whitelisted, it is plausibly official, and the package installs only data and binaries intended for local execution without remote code execution or exfiltration risks.

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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 proprietary binary from a plausible project-related host (necds-engineering.com) used for NEC monitor color management; while the host is not whitelisted, it is plausibly official, and the package installs only data and binaries intended for local execution without remote code execution or exfiltration risks.

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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:22 source=("http://www.necds-engineering.com/spectraview/NEC_SpectraView_Linux_x64_${pkgver}_multilanguage.tar.gz" "spectraview2.png")

PKGBUILD

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1# Maintainer: Leonardo Brondani Schenkel <leonardo at schenkel dot net>
2pkgname=spectraview2-bin
3pkgver=1.1.38
4pkgrel=2
5epoch=
6pkgdesc="Profiling and color management tool for NEC monitors"
7arch=('x86_64')
8url="https://www.sharpnecdisplays.us/support-and-services/spectraviewii/4"
9license=('LicenseRef-proprietary')
10groups=()
11depends=(fontconfig freetype2 libice libsm libudev0-shim libusb-compat libxrandr libxrender libxxf86vm)
12makedepends=(gendesk)
13checkdepends=()
14optdepends=()
15provides=()
16conflicts=(spectraview2)
17replaces=()
18backup=()
19options=()
20install=
21changelog=
22source=("http://www.necds-engineering.com/spectraview/NEC_SpectraView_Linux_x64_${pkgver}_multilanguage.tar.gz" "spectraview2.png")
23noextract=()
24sha512sums=('0dc6e3352dfde3d53d7cadd4eb5b4ff90d913cc14da407e998ff11cc61cea0588b69a700a7f8ff4c7d1369d8774e4665751bd2a3f70b07153c15f447da2a80e1'
25 'e2f2b7fe1b82b5ca3a422cb3cf30b20f006a27d36fed21d19847147f85e93a10b3e8cbc8930e31f0b1f62a5a643866a0d0071bac61d448d64b9ae3ea1c805312')
26validpgpkeys=()
27
28_pkgname="SpectraView"
29
30prepare() {
31 gendesk -f -n --pkgname "$_pkgname" --pkgdesc "$pkgdesc" --categories "Utility;Graphics"
32}
33
34package() {
35 cd $srcdir/NEC_SpectraView_V${pkgver}_[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]_Linux_x64/
36
37 # modify udev rules (660 rather than 666 for NEC devices and all i2c devices)
38 sed -i 's/MODE="0666"/MODE="0660"/g' NEC_SpectraView_x64/55-NEC.rules
39 install -dm755 "$pkgdir/etc/udev/rules.d/"
40 install -Dm644 NEC_SpectraView_x64/55-NEC.rules "$pkgdir/etc/udev/rules.d/"
41
42 install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
43 install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/lib/$_pkgname"
44 install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/share/pixmaps"
45 install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications"
46
47 install -Dm755 NEC_SpectraView_x64/BUILD_A/SpectraView /$pkgdir/usr/lib/$_pkgname/
48 install -Dm755 NEC_SpectraView_x64/BUILD_A/cmdlineddclite /$pkgdir/usr/lib/$_pkgname/
49 install -Dm755 NEC_SpectraView_x64/BUILD_A/i1d2 /$pkgdir/usr/lib/$_pkgname/
50 install -Dm755 NEC_SpectraView_x64/BUILD_A/i1d3 /$pkgdir/usr/lib/$_pkgname/
51 cp -R "NEC_SpectraView_x64/BUILD_A/i1d3 Support Files" /$pkgdir/usr/lib/$_pkgname/
52
53 #install libs for x-rite/GretagMacBeth i1 display colorimeters
54 cp -R "NEC_SpectraView_x64/libraries to install/i1d2/." "$pkgdir/usr/lib/"
55 cp -R "NEC_SpectraView_x64/libraries to install/i1d3/." "$pkgdir/usr/lib/"
56 chmod -R 755 "$pkgdir/usr/lib/"
57
58 #i2c kernel module is needed to access the DDC from userspace
59 install -dm755 "$pkgdir/etc/modules-load.d/"
60 echo "i2c-dev" > "$pkgdir/etc/modules-load.d/55-$_pkgname.conf"
61 chmod 644 "$pkgdir/etc/modules-load.d/55-$_pkgname.conf"
62
63 #desktop icon
64 install -Dm644 "$srcdir/$_pkgname.desktop" "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/$_pkgname.desktop"
65 install -Dm644 "$srcdir/spectraview2.png" "$pkgdir/usr/share/pixmaps/$_pkgname.png"
66 ln -s "/usr/lib/$_pkgname/SpectraView" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/"
67 install -D -m644 NEC_SpectraView_x64/license.txt "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
68}
69

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