synology-assistant

LOW
maintainer zen 45 votes scanned 2026-10-03 00:23:04.761738
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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from Synology's official domain, extracts and installs it; while the host is not whitelisted, it is the legitimate vendor's download infrastructure, and the payload is a non-executable data extraction followed by symlinking, posing low risk.

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-2507) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from Synology's official domain, extracts and installs it; while the host is not whitelisted, it is the legitimate vendor's download infrastructure, and the payload is a non-executable data extraction followed by symlinking, posing low risk.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:18 source=("https://global.download.synology.com/download/Utility/Assistant/${_pkgver}/Ubuntu/${arch}/synology-assistant_${_pkgver}_amd64.deb")

PKGBUILD

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1# Maintainer: Helmut Stult <hst[at]e-mail[dot]de>
2# Contributor: Pippo Peppo <abc@gmx.ch>
3# Contributor: Lev Lybin <aur@devtrue.net>
4# Contributor: Nick Østergaard <oe.nick at gmail dot com>
5
6pkgname=synology-assistant
7pkgver=7.0.7_50095
8_pkgver=7.0.7-50095
9pkgrel=1
10pkgdesc="It helps you set up and install DSM on your DiskStation"
11arch=('x86_64')
12url="https://www.synology.com/en-global/releaseNote/Assistant"
13license=('custom:Synology Linux License Grant')
14depends=('glib2' 'glibc' 'qt5-base' 'libxkbcommon' 'libice' 'libsm')
15conflicts=('synology-assistant')
16provides=('synology-assistant')
17install=${pkgname}.install
18source=("https://global.download.synology.com/download/Utility/Assistant/${_pkgver}/Ubuntu/${arch}/synology-assistant_${_pkgver}_amd64.deb")
19sha256sums=('179b65691619a3c54bcf7dad9dd3af5474a8c337ebce7d0af3416dd13b85cfc6')
20
21prepare() {
22 cd "${srcdir}"
23 tar -zxf "${srcdir}/data.tar.gz"
24}
25
26package() {
27 cp -rp opt "${pkgdir}/opt"
28
29 mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
30 ln -sf /opt/Synology/SynologyAssistant/SynologyAssistant "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}"
31
32 install -Dm644 usr/share/applications/${pkgname}.desktop "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${pkgname}.desktop"
33}
34

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