ucon64-gui

MEDIUM

maintainer mictjs 1 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary RPM from mirror.rosalab.ru (a ROSA Linux mirror, not the upstream project's official release channel at sourceforge.net) and installs the extracted binary directly. Two compounding issues: (1) the binary is a precompiled executable from a third-party Linux distribution's mirror, not the upstream source, meaning any compromise or tampering of that mirror would result in arbitrary code execution on the user's system; (2) sha256sums=('SKIP') means there is zero integrity verification — any content served at that URL is accepted unconditionally. The commented-out alternative section shows the maintainer knows the upstream SourceForge source exists but chose the ROSA mirror instead. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: an executed binary from a non-official, non-upstream host with no checksum validation.

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:11 source=(http://mirror.rosalab.ru/rosa/rosa2016.1/repository/${CARCH}/contrib/release//${pkgname}-${pkgver}-13-rosa2016.1.${CARCH}.rpm)

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 78%): This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary RPM from mirror.rosalab.ru (a ROSA Linux mirror, not the upstream project's official release channel at sourceforge.net) and installs the extracted binary directly. Two compounding issues: (1) the binary is a precompiled executable from a third-party Linux distribution's mirror, not the upstream source, meaning any compromise or tampering of that mirror would result in arbitrary code execution on the user's system; (2) sha256sums=('SKIP') means there is zero integrity verification — any content served at that URL is accepted unconditionally. The commented-out alternative section shows the maintainer knows the upstream SourceForge source exists but chose the ROSA mirror instead. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: an executed binary from a non-official, non-upstream host with no checksum validation.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Mike Polvere <mic.tjs@gmail.com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=ucon64-gui
    
      4pkgver=2.0.0
    
      5pkgrel=13
    
      6pkgdesc="GUI for Ucon64 (UI also known as uf-FOX), a console ROM backup tool and emulator's Swiss Army knife program. " 
    
      7arch=('i586' 'x86_64')
    
      8url="http://ucon64.sourceforge.net/index.php"
    
      9license=('GPL')
    
      10depends=('gcc-libs' 'glibc' 'fox-devel' 'ucon64')
    
      11source=(http://mirror.rosalab.ru/rosa/rosa2016.1/repository/${CARCH}/contrib/release//${pkgname}-${pkgver}-13-rosa2016.1.${CARCH}.rpm)
    
      12sha256sums=('SKIP')
    
      13
    
      14package() {
    
      15    cd "usr"
    
      16    install -Dm644 "share/doc/${pkgname}/gpl.txt" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/gpl.txt"
    
      17    install -Dm644 "share/doc/${pkgname}/README.txt" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/README.txt"
    
      18    install -Dm775 "bin/uf" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/ucon64-gui"
    
      19} 
    
      20
    
      21################
    
      22#   optional   #
    
      23################
    
      24
    
      25# pkgname=ucon64-gui
    
      26# _pkgname=uf-FOX
    
      27# pkgver=1.1
    
      28# pkgrel=1
    
      29# pkgdesc="GUI for Ucon64 (UI also known as uf-FOX), a console ROM backup tool and emulator's Swiss Army knife program. " 
    
      30# arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
    
      31# url="http://ucon64.sourceforge.net/index.php"
    
      32# license=('GPL')
    
      33# depends=('lib32-libxext' 'lib32-libstdc++5' 'ucon64')
    
      34# source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ucon64/${_pkgname}-${pkgver}-linux-bin.zip)
    
      35# sha256sums=('SKIP')
    
      36
    
      37# package() {
    
      38#     cd "${_pkgname}-${pkgver}-linux-bin"
    
      39#     install -Dm644 "gpl.txt" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/gpl.txt"
    
      40#     install -Dm644 "README.txt" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/README.txt"
    
      41#     install -Dm775 "uf" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/ucon64-gui"
    
      42# } 
    
      43

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2026-09-16 00:03:17	Medium	2
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2026-09-13 00:19:54	Medium	2
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