ttf-vista-fonts

maintainer mrxx · 439 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer installer from archive.org to extract Vista fonts; while the host is non-standard, the source is a well-known archival repository, the checksum is provided, and only font files are extracted and installed, posing minimal risk.

Triggered rules

LOW AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer installer from archive.org to extract Vista fonts; while the host is non-standard, the source is a well-known archival repository, the checksum is provided, and only font files are extracted and installed, posing minimal 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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:16 source=("${pkgname}.cab::https://archive.org/download/PowerPointViewer_201801/PowerPointViewer.exe")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: mrxx <mrxx at cyberhome dot at>
    
      2# Contributor: diomekes <goodmans at protonmail dot com>
    
      3# Contributor: mutlu_inek <mutlu_inek at <yahoo dot de>
    
      4# Contributor: jnbek
    
      5pkgname=ttf-vista-fonts
    
      6pkgver=1
    
      7pkgrel=12
    
      8pkgdesc="Microsoft Vista and Office 2007 True Type Fonts"
    
      9url="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/fonts/font-faq"
    
      10license=('custom:microsoft')
    
      11arch=('any')
    
      12depends=()
    
      13makedepends=('fontforge' 'fontconfig' 'cabextract')
    
      14replaces=('vista-fonts')
    
      15install=$pkgname.install
    
      16source=("${pkgname}.cab::https://archive.org/download/PowerPointViewer_201801/PowerPointViewer.exe")
    
      17sha256sums=('249473568eba7a1e4f95498acba594e0f42e6581add4dead70c1dfb908a09423')
    
      18
    
      19package() {
    
      20    mkdir -p "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      21    cabextract --lowercase "$srcdir/${pkgname}.cab" -d "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      22    cabextract --lowercase -F '*.tt[fc]' "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver/ppviewer.cab" -d "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      23
    
      24    # cambria.ttc is a TrueType Collection (TTC) which causes problems with
    
      25    # LibreOffice (Cambria Regular cannot be selected) so we need to convert
    
      26    # the TTC into a TrueType Font (TTF).
    
      27    cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      28    FONTFORGE_LANGUAGE=ff fontforge -c 'Open("cambria.ttc"); Generate("cambria.ttf")'
    
      29    FONTFORGE_LANGUAGE=ff fontforge -c 'Open("cambria.ttc(Cambria Math)"); Generate("cambria-math.ttf")' 
    
      30    rm cambria.ttc
    
      31
    
      32    mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    
      33    install -m644 "$srcdir"/$pkgname-$pkgver/*.{ttf,ttc} "$pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    
      34    install -Dm644 "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver/eula" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/EULA"
    
      35}
    
      36

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-07-17 00:06
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 # Maintainer: mrxx <mrxx at cyberhome dot at>
-# Contributor: mutlu_inek <mutlu_inek@yahoo.de>
+# Contributor: diomekes <goodmans at protonmail dot com>
+# Contributor: mutlu_inek <mutlu_inek at <yahoo dot de>
 # Contributor: jnbek
 pkgname=ttf-vista-fonts
 pkgver=1
-pkgrel=11
+pkgrel=12
 pkgdesc="Microsoft Vista and Office 2007 True Type Fonts"
 url="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/fonts/font-faq"
 license=('custom:microsoft')
@@ -12,7 +13,7 @@
 makedepends=('fontforge' 'fontconfig' 'cabextract')
 replaces=('vista-fonts')
 install=$pkgname.install
-source=("${pkgname}.cab::https://web.archive.org/web/20171225132744/http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/6/7/E675FFFC-2A6D-4AB0-B3EB-27C9F8C8F696/PowerPointViewer.exe")
+source=("${pkgname}.cab::https://archive.org/download/PowerPointViewer_201801/PowerPointViewer.exe")
 sha256sums=('249473568eba7a1e4f95498acba594e0f42e6581add4dead70c1dfb908a09423')
 
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Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	LOW	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	LOW	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	LOW	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	LOW	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	2
2026-07-17 23:55:59	LOW	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	2