speedtouch-firmware

LOW
maintainer orphaned 1 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The package downloads source code and archived firmware files from historical web archives and a USB project site to build and extract firmware blobs; these are non-executable data files installed to /usr/lib/firmware, posing minimal risk even if the hosts are non-standard.

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 source code and archived firmware files from historical web archives and a USB project site to build and extract firmware blobs; these are non-executable data files installed to /usr/lib/firmware, posing minimal risk even if the hosts are non-standard.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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 'http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/firmware/firmware-extractor.tar.gz'
  • PKGBUILD:10 'https://web.archive.org/web/20061203044952id_/http://www.speedtouch.com/download/drivers/USB/SpeedTouch330_firmware_3012.zip'

PKGBUILD

2 offending line(s) highlighted
1pkgname=speedtouch-firmware
2pkgver=3.0.1.2
3pkgrel=2
4pkgdesc='Firmware for Thomson SpeedTouch modems'
5arch=(any)
6makedepends=(tcc)
7license=(custom)
8source=(
9 'http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/firmware/firmware-extractor.tar.gz'
10 'https://web.archive.org/web/20061203044952id_/http://www.speedtouch.com/download/drivers/USB/SpeedTouch330_firmware_3012.zip'
11 'https://web.archive.org/web/20070306191113id_/http://www.speedtouch.com/driver_upgrade_lx_3.0.1.2.htm'
12
13 # 'https://web.archive.org/web/20070310222023id_/http://download.ethomson.com/download/speedmgmt.tar.gz'
14 # older version (extract from mgmt.o)
15)
16sha512sums=(
17 '2d2e55f46961dfe20218a17a6fe897fc35f7cd2802dc6f61ff3124b8ff51a2d8f5275c683b2f2676e72451b220d2f705550ab5d73923de284fa591fec8796efa'
18 'd4ec1b609eb58b15b0c569fc2c96e453517f6a8141c706f342549093c2c7bbdc09bbc3f05ecf75f3018e54f03a974b84e625fb9401f02d4f4143b721eee0b3c3'
19 '65ef3be03fafcb96ac3f23c51684be870ac03a8469234ba73e2c2edcf872b1d994dca8ef6297255e370046061805347919bea98799ec73d3273089d6d76c1db5'
20 # '8d77ef0e45ee455dd67efecf4fcd95e4b00e54b016e3323b96ed9e60f76b6330fdecf06b6c54a1b2a3938badf158d79e886092d9c8a908984b0cb5a2e880d7aa'
21)
22
23build() {
24 cd "$srcdir/firmware-extractor"
25 tcc firmware.c -o firmware-extractor
26
27 ./firmware-extractor ../"ZZZL_3.012"
28 mv speedtch-1.bin ../speedtch-1.bin.4 # .00
29 mv speedtch-2.bin ../speedtch-2.bin.4 # .00
30 ./firmware-extractor ../"KQD6_3.012"
31 mv speedtch-1.bin ../speedtch-1.bin.2
32 mv speedtch-2.bin ../speedtch-2.bin.2
33}
34
35package() {
36 install -dm0755 "$pkgdir/usr/lib/firmware"
37 install -Dm0644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/lib/firmware" \
38 "$srcdir"/speedtch-?.bin*
39 install -Dm0644 "$srcdir/driver_upgrade_lx_3.0.1.2.htm" \
40 "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/license.html"
41}
42

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