upd72020x-fw

LOW
maintainer glek 168 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The package downloads a firmware tarball from a project-owned Git repository on a non-whitelisted host, but firmware files are non-executable data; the worst case of a swapped source is limited to data tampering, not code execution.

Triggered rules

Low AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a firmware tarball from a project-owned Git repository on a non-whitelisted host, but firmware files are non-executable data; the worst case of a swapped source is limited to data tampering, not code execution.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:14 "uPD72020x-Firmware-$_tarballver.tar.gz::https://git.disroot.org/glektarssza/aur-upd72020x-fw/releases/download/v1.0.0-3/uPD72020x-Firmware-$_tarballver.tar.gz"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: M. Damian "G'lek" Mulligan <glek (at) glektarssza (dot) com>
2# Contributor: Jack Chen <redchenjs@live.com>
3
4pkgname=upd72020x-fw
5pkgver=1.1.0
6pkgrel=2
7epoch=1
8pkgdesc="Renesas uPD720201 / uPD720202 USB 3.0 chipsets firmware"
9arch=('any')
10url="https://git.disroot.org/glektarssza/aur-upd72020x-fw"
11license=('custom')
12_tarballver=1.0.0
13source=(
14 "uPD72020x-Firmware-$_tarballver.tar.gz::https://git.disroot.org/glektarssza/aur-upd72020x-fw/releases/download/v1.0.0-3/uPD72020x-Firmware-$_tarballver.tar.gz"
15 "remove.hook"
16)
17sha512sums=(
18 '9d7e61c99a0f46d0ae96505317e763a468d3e8006f7398d10899ab78532b1ace608662b8a1b410a5577b268dc1f9275d1ebe3d03d209b85b2c4307ceb48dd261'
19 '47aa4c4c3a0014df79b7a7998edfbc7b436ae6e966432f3787d9f1655c986591c73165de6fad52ebb5cefd4f8101b9b094d117f0508cd1f8f0d2c7396bbd3f91'
20)
21
22package() {
23 install -Dm644 "uPD72020x-Firmware-$_tarballver/UPDATE.mem" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/firmware/renesas_usb_fw.mem"
24 install -Dm644 "uPD72020x-Firmware-$_tarballver/License.rtf" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE.rtf"
25
26 # firmware install & remove hooks
27 install -Dm644 /dev/null "$pkgdir/usr/lib/initcpio/hooks/$pkgname"
28 install -Dm644 remove.hook "$pkgdir/usr/share/libalpm/hooks/$pkgname.hook"
29}
30

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