startech-usb-crash-cart-adapter

LOW

maintainer georgyo 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The source is a driver and utility software package from StarTech's official CDN, used to install udev rules and a wrapper script; it is not an obfuscated or executable payload run during build, and the host, while not whitelisted, is plausibly the project's official distribution point.

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 driver and utility software package from StarTech's official CDN, used to install udev rules and a wrapper script; it is not an obfuscated or executable payload run during build, and the host, while not whitelisted, is plausibly the project's official distribution point.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:22 source=("notescon-${pkgver}.zip::https://sgcdn.startech.com/005329/media/sets/notecons02_drivers/notecons02%20linux%20software%20pack.zip")

PKGBUILD

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      1# maintainer: x2416 <x2416x at gmail dot com>
    
      2#
    
      3# Most of this sourced from PKGBUILD found here -- https://gist.github.com/georgyo/d5c82709ec944a785976/revisions
    
      4#
    
      5# This is based heavily on work found posted four years ago 
    
      6# on github by georgyo (George Shammas) but updated to use current version found 
    
      7# on startechs website. Enjoy!
    
      8#
    
      9# This works on notecons02 and notecons01.
    
      10#
    
      11# ---------------------------------------------------
    
      12# Defines
    
      13# ---------------------------------------------------
    
      14pkgname=startech-usb-crash-cart-adapter
    
      15pkgver=20181017
    
      16pkgrel=2
    
      17pkgdesc='StarTech usb crash cart adapter notecons software'
    
      18arch=('x86_64')
    
      19url='http://www.startech.com/Server-Management/KVM-Switches/USB-Crash-Cart-Adapter~NOTECONS02'
    
      20license=('unknown')
    
      21
    
      22source=("notescon-${pkgver}.zip::https://sgcdn.startech.com/005329/media/sets/notecons02_drivers/notecons02%20linux%20software%20pack.zip")
    
      23sha256sums=('54cb0387e09b10300cb617e5ab54f0a20881ba672fe2e970c19be6924cf24608')
    
      24
    
      25package() {
    
      26  # Change directory into pkg where we'll do our business
    
      27  cd $pkgdir
    
      28
    
      29  # Extract the files inside the rpm we moved into place during the prepare phase
    
      30  bsdtar -xf "${srcdir}/Linux RPM/Install-64bit.rpm"
    
      31
    
      32  # Install files that match the following pattern into usr/lib/udev/rules.d
    
      33  install -D -t usr/lib/udev/rules.d opt/usb-crash-cart-adapter/${pkgver}/12-dcc*-install.rules
    
      34
    
      35  # Make sure the destination path exists up until the last DEST, and then copy SRC to DEST
    
      36  # This puts the icon in place on certain window managers
    
      37  install -D opt/usb-crash-cart-adapter/${pkgver}/main-18235253.net-icon.desktop usr/share/applications/usb-crash-cart-adapter.desktop
    
      38
    
      39  # This copies the wrapper program to be extracted to usr/bin/usb-crash-cart-adapter
    
      40  install -D opt/usb-crash-cart-adapter/${pkgver}/wrapper usr/bin/usb-crash-cart-adapter
    
      41}
    
      42
    
      43post_install() {
    
      44  # after install, call udevadm trigger to read for updates
    
      45  udevadm trigger
    
      46}
    
      47
    
      48post_upgrade() {
    
      49  # after upgrade, call udevadm trigger to read for updates
    
      50  udevadm trigger
    
      51}
    
      52

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2026-09-17 00:27:14	Low	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Low	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Low	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Low	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Low	2
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2026-09-06 00:17:06	Low	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Low	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Low	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Low	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Low	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Low	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Low	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Low	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Low	2