tpsutil

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

MEDIUM

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt Windows PE executable (tpsutilw64.exe) from sbmorphometrics.org, which is the official upstream site for the TPS morphometrics software suite by F. James Rohlf (a well-known academic tool in geometric morphometrics). The host is not a personal/random host but the legitimate project homepage. However, the executable is extracted via innoextract and then run under Wine at runtime — meaning a compromised or swapped binary at that URL would execute arbitrary code on the user's system. The md5sum provides weak integrity assurance (MD5 is broken for collision resistance). The overall pattern — prebuilt closed-source Windows binary from a third-party host, run via Wine — is a genuine supply-chain concern even if the upstream appears legitimate, keeping this at MEDIUM rather than clean. It is not high because there is no evidence of active compromise, obfuscation, or malicious intent, and the source appears to be the real upstream vendor site.

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/tpsutilw64.exe" "tpsUtil.desktop" "tpsUtil.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 package downloads a prebuilt Windows PE executable (tpsutilw64.exe) from sbmorphometrics.org, which is the official upstream site for the TPS morphometrics software suite by F. James Rohlf (a well-known academic tool in geometric morphometrics). The host is not a personal/random host but the legitimate project homepage. However, the executable is extracted via innoextract and then run under Wine at runtime — meaning a compromised or swapped binary at that URL would execute arbitrary code on the user's system. The md5sum provides weak integrity assurance (MD5 is broken for collision resistance). The overall pattern — prebuilt closed-source Windows binary from a third-party host, run via Wine — is a genuine supply-chain concern even if the upstream appears legitimate, keeping this at MEDIUM rather than clean. It is not high because there is no evidence of active compromise, obfuscation, or malicious intent, and the source appears to be the real upstream vendor site.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: malacology
    
      2# Contributor: malacology
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=tpsutil
    
      5pkgver=2023.03.04
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc="tps file utility program"
    
      8arch=('any')
    
      9url="http://sbmorphometrics.org/soft-utility.html"
    
      10license=('custom')
    
      11makedepends=('innoextract')
    
      12depends=(
    
      13	'wine'
    
      14	'wine_gecko'
    
      15	'wine-mono'
    
      16)
    
      17source=("https://sbmorphometrics.org/morphmet/tpsutilw64.exe" "tpsUtil.desktop" "tpsUtil.png")
    
      18md5sums=('18da32fb82f3521f04b167bd3280bb32'
    
      19         '64baf6b610dcecc53a15342218579d18'
    
      20         '6e52ff5a9df8898532610845c973b23a')
    
      21build(){
    
      22  innoextract tpsutilw64.exe
    
      23}
    
      24package() {
    
      25  install -dm755 "$pkgdir"/usr/share/{tpsutil,applications}
    
      26  mv "$srcdir"/app/* "$pkgdir"/usr/share/tpsutil
    
      27  install -Dm755 ${srcdir}/tpsUtil.png ${pkgdir}/usr/share/tpsutil/tpsUtil.png
    
      28  install -Dm755 ${srcdir}/tpsUtil.desktop ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/tpsUtil.desktop
    
      29}
    
      30

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