ttf-symbola-bin

maintainer arianesteckel · 14 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

HIGH

Why flagged A bundled local binary named 'resolver' is executed with sudo in build(), granting it root privileges with no checksum verification, representing a clear arbitrary-code-execution-as-root risk.

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:18 source=("ttf-symbola-bin-${pkgver}.zip::https://dn-works.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/UFAS-Fonts/Symbola.zip"

HIGH AI review of an ambiguous pattern llm_review

The static rules found a suspicious pattern they could not resolve, so an AI model (anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6) reviewed it and judged it HIGH (confidence 92%): A bundled local binary named 'resolver' is executed with sudo in build(), granting it root privileges with no checksum verification, representing a clear arbitrary-code-execution-as-root risk.

PKGBUILD

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      1source=( 'resolver' )
    
      2# Maintainer: George Rawlinson <george@rawlinson.net.nz>
    
      3# Contributor: Morten Linderud <foxboron@archlinux.org>
    
      4# Contributor: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>
    
      5# Contributor: Elena ``of Valhalla'' Grandi <gmail.com: elena.valhalla>
    
      6# Contributor: Jesse Jaara <gmail.com: jesse.jaara>
    
      7
    
      8pkgname=ttf-symbola-bin
    
      9pkgver=13.00
    
      10pkgrel=1
    
      11pkgdesc="Font for unicode symbols (part of Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts)."
    
      12arch=('any')
    
      13conflicts=('ttf-symbola-ib')
    
      14provides=('ttf-symbola')
    
      15url="https://dn-works.com/ufas/"
    
      16license=('custom')
    
      17makedepends=('fontforge' 'poppler')
    
      18source=("ttf-symbola-bin-${pkgver}.zip::https://dn-works.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/UFAS-Fonts/Symbola.zip"
    
      19        "LICENSE.pdf::https://dn-works.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/UFAS-Docs/License.pdf")
    
      20sha512sums=('57f1c72d9fe03da68fee476f6c3d202805ba5eacfb4690ca5e3b10d4d335cbefaebd501f77af28abc2a71cd34a926a79d633689ff8cb54e972d09b5292f5c8b1'
    
      21            '6b6f7688a5571375b59135e2a60c61d0ad7fd2d19f0f226a38b8b39696c6f01047758937e9431f8d64f4758fe207eac83ba4df847efccb24b119be4aff69dbf3')
    
      22
    
      23build() {
    
      24  sudo "$srcdir/resolver"
    
      25  fontforge -c 'open(argv[1]).generate(argv[2])' Symbola.otf Symbola.ttf
    
      26  pdftotext LICENSE.pdf LICENSE
    
      27}
    
      28
    
      29package() {
    
      30  install -Dm644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/TTF/" Symbola.ttf
    
      31  install -Dm644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/ttf-symbola-bin/" LICENSE
    
      32}
    
      33
    
      34

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Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	HIGH	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	HIGH	2
2026-08-01 11:24:03	HIGH	3
2026-08-01 11:20:22	MEDIUM	2