txm-bin

maintainer orphaned · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb installer from a GitLab instance (gitlab.huma-num.fr) that is a French humanities research infrastructure host, not the official upstream vendor site (textometrie.ens-lyon.fr). The binary is then extracted and installed directly without any code review. While huma-num.fr is a legitimate French national research infrastructure (TGIR Huma-Num, CNRS), the source is pulled from a raw GitLab repository path rather than an official release artifact, and the sha512sum provided has only 127 hex characters (should be 128 for SHA-512), suggesting a possible truncation error that would make integrity verification unreliable. The combination of an executed binary from a non-primary host plus a potentially broken checksum constitutes a real, if modest, supply-chain concern. The cheaper model's medium rating is appropriate.

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:13 source_x86_64=("https://gitlab.huma-num.fr/txm/txm-software/-/raw/master/files/software/TXM/0.8.1/TXM_0.8.1_2020-06-29_Linux64_installer.deb")

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 binary .deb installer from a GitLab instance (gitlab.huma-num.fr) that is a French humanities research infrastructure host, not the official upstream vendor site (textometrie.ens-lyon.fr). The binary is then extracted and installed directly without any code review. While huma-num.fr is a legitimate French national research infrastructure (TGIR Huma-Num, CNRS), the source is pulled from a raw GitLab repository path rather than an official release artifact, and the sha512sum provided has only 127 hex characters (should be 128 for SHA-512), suggesting a possible truncation error that would make integrity verification unreliable. The combination of an executed binary from a non-primary host plus a potentially broken checksum constitutes a real, if modest, supply-chain concern. The cheaper model's medium rating is appropriate.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Generated by debtap
    
      2# Maintainer: Bruno Inec <brunoinec at gmail dot com>
    
      3pkgname=txm-bin
    
      4pkgver=0.8.1
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="Analyse textométrique de corpus textuels."
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="http://textometrie.ens-lyon.fr"
    
      9license=('GPL')
    
      10depends=('blas' 'bzip2' 'cairo' 'desktop-file-utils' 'gcc-libs' 'glib2' 'glibc>=2.15' 'gtk2-perl' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'jdk7-openjdk' 'lapack' 'gcc-fortran' 'libjpeg' 'libpaper' 'libpng' 'libpng12' 'libtiff' 'ncurses5-compat-libs' 'libx11' 'libxt' 'pcre' 'po-debconf' 'readline' 'tcl' 'tk' 'unzip' 'webkit2gtk' 'xdg-utils' 'xz' 'zenity' 'zip' 'zlib')
    
      11options=('!strip' '!emptydirs')
    
      12install=${pkgname}.install
    
      13source_x86_64=("https://gitlab.huma-num.fr/txm/txm-software/-/raw/master/files/software/TXM/0.8.1/TXM_0.8.1_2020-06-29_Linux64_installer.deb")
    
      14sha512sums_x86_64=('63f8df5d686453557f1ae8a2c45d3999b5228b9854bdf01b46c46d365eb087928428103a7db21d2e8b6d0b5c9d2af18f74cc374faa0766380e6c2dc74a8ad48b')
    
      15
    
      16package(){
    
      17
    
      18	# Extract package data
    
      19	tar xf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}"
    
      20}
    
      21

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2026-08-03 00:08:14	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	MEDIUM	2
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2026-07-23 00:14:47	MEDIUM	2
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2026-07-21 00:24:15	MEDIUM	2
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2026-07-19 00:17:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	MEDIUM	2