tpsdig

maintainer malacology · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt Windows PE executable (tpsdig2w64.exe) from sbmorphometrics.org, which is the official upstream site for the TPS morphometrics software suite by F. James Rohlf (State University of New York). The host is legitimate and well-known in the morphometrics research community, not a personal or random host. However, the package installs a prebuilt binary (extracted via innoextract and run under Wine) rather than building from source, which is a genuine supply-chain concern: if sbmorphometrics.org were compromised, users would execute arbitrary Windows code. There is no GPG signature verification, only an MD5 checksum (weak). This is a real but common AUR pattern for proprietary Windows software run under Wine, and the upstream host is the canonical official source. The risk is real but not elevated beyond a standard medium for prebuilt binaries from an official vendor host.

Triggered rules

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:17 source=("https://sbmorphometrics.org/morphmet/tpsdig2w64.exe" "tpsDig.desktop" "tpsDig.png")

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt Windows PE executable (tpsdig2w64.exe) from sbmorphometrics.org, which is the official upstream site for the TPS morphometrics software suite by F. James Rohlf (State University of New York). The host is legitimate and well-known in the morphometrics research community, not a personal or random host. However, the package installs a prebuilt binary (extracted via innoextract and run under Wine) rather than building from source, which is a genuine supply-chain concern: if sbmorphometrics.org were compromised, users would execute arbitrary Windows code. There is no GPG signature verification, only an MD5 checksum (weak). This is a real but common AUR pattern for proprietary Windows software run under Wine, and the upstream host is the canonical official source. The risk is real but not elevated beyond a standard medium for prebuilt binaries from an official vendor host.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: malacology
    
      2# Contributor: malacology
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=tpsdig
    
      5pkgver=2021.6.3
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc="Digitize landmarks & outlines from image files, scanner, or video"
    
      8arch=('any')
    
      9url="http://sbmorphometrics.org/soft-dataacq.html"
    
      10license=('custom')
    
      11makedepends=('innoextract')
    
      12depends=(
    
      13	'wine'
    
      14	'wine_gecko'
    
      15	'wine-mono'
    
      16)
    
      17source=("https://sbmorphometrics.org/morphmet/tpsdig2w64.exe" "tpsDig.desktop" "tpsDig.png")
    
      18md5sums=('4780a1ff616ffcdb5e60b6d581a48ae3'
    
      19         'c595d462fdea0417af99e481a8cb2edf'
    
      20         '2e2e7c55e63e7a3892e49aab613aed35')
    
      21build(){
    
      22  innoextract tpsdig2w64.exe
    
      23}
    
      24package() {
    
      25  install -dm755 "$pkgdir"/usr/share/{tpsdig,applications}
    
      26  mv "$srcdir"/app/* "$pkgdir"/usr/share/tpsdig
    
      27  install -Dm755 ${srcdir}/tpsDig.png ${pkgdir}/usr/share/tpsdig/tpsDig.png
    
      28  install -Dm755 ${srcdir}/tpsDig.desktop ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/tpsDig.desktop
    
      29}
    
      30

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