usd-fbx

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Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt FBX SDK installer binary from autodesk.net (damassets.autodesk.net), which is Autodesk's official CDN/asset delivery domain. The URL pattern matches Autodesk's known FBX SDK distribution URLs. However, the binary is an executable installer that is run directly in prepare() with 'printf yes|n | ./fbx..._linux', meaning an untrusted binary is executed during the build. The sha512sum for the git source is SKIP'd (non-ideal but common for VCS sources), while the FBX tarball does have a checksum. The real concern is: (1) the FBX SDK installer is a prebuilt binary executed at build time, and (2) while damassets.autodesk.net is Autodesk's legitimate CDN, it is not a standard distribution channel like a distro mirror, and the URL could change or be redirected. The checksum on the tarball mitigates the supply-chain risk somewhat. This is a genuine medium: an executed prebuilt binary from a vendor CDN with a checksum but from an unofficial packaging perspective. It is not high because the host is Autodesk's own CDN and a checksum is present, but it is not clean because a prebuilt binary installer is executed during the build process.

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:20 "https://damassets.autodesk.net/content/dam/autodesk/www/adn/fbx/${_fbxver//./-}/fbx${_fbxver//./}_fbxsdk_linux.tar.gz"
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 FBX SDK installer binary from autodesk.net (damassets.autodesk.net), which is Autodesk's official CDN/asset delivery domain. The URL pattern matches Autodesk's known FBX SDK distribution URLs. However, the binary is an executable installer that is run directly in prepare() with 'printf yes|n | ./fbx..._linux', meaning an untrusted binary is executed during the build. The sha512sum for the git source is SKIP'd (non-ideal but common for VCS sources), while the FBX tarball does have a checksum. The real concern is: (1) the FBX SDK installer is a prebuilt binary executed at build time, and (2) while damassets.autodesk.net is Autodesk's legitimate CDN, it is not a standard distribution channel like a distro mirror, and the URL could change or be redirected. The checksum on the tarball mitigates the supply-chain risk somewhat. This is a genuine medium: an executed prebuilt binary from a vendor CDN with a checksum but from an unofficial packaging perspective. It is not high because the host is Autodesk's own CDN and a checksum is present, but it is not clean because a prebuilt binary installer is executed during the build process.

PKGBUILD

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1# Maintainer: Adrià Cabello <adro.cc79 at protonmail dot com>
2
3_fbxver=2020.3.4
4
5pkgname=usd-fbx
6pkgver=0.1
7pkgrel=2
8pkgdesc='FBX plugin for USD'
9arch=(x86_64)
10url='https://github.com/Remedy-Entertainment/usdFBX'
11license=('Apache')
12depends=(usd
13 python
14 boost
15 gcc)
16makedepends=(cmake)
17options=(!lto)
18
19source=("git+$url.git"
20 "https://damassets.autodesk.net/content/dam/autodesk/www/adn/fbx/${_fbxver//./-}/fbx${_fbxver//./}_fbxsdk_linux.tar.gz"
21 )
22sha512sums=('SKIP'
23 '3cacaf23f43887942366a6cdc1d60bcca813bc1e137b3f9b0870ca80f4e505f4dc1f093f8a625075ba610318e09cb5f74d9fd94c53a05310ac3938b3c9e03d35')
24
25prepare() {
26 cd "${srcdir}"
27
28 #FBX SDK
29 mkdir -p fbx-sdk
30 printf "yes\nn\n" | "${srcdir}/fbx${_fbxver//./}_fbxsdk_linux" "${srcdir}/fbx-sdk"
31}
32
33build() {
34 _CMAKE_FLAGS+=(
35 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/lib/usd/plugin
36 -DUSD_CONFIG_FILE=/usr/lib/cmake/pxr/pxrConfig.cmake
37 -DADSK_FBX_LOCATION="${srcdir}"/fbx-sdk
38 -DUSDFBX_BUILD_TESTS=ON
39 )
40
41 cmake -S usdFBX -B build -G Ninja "${_CMAKE_FLAGS[@]}"
42
43 ninja -C build ${MAKEFLAGS:--j12}
44}
45
46package() {
47 mkdir -p "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib/usd/plugin
48 cp -r "${srcdir}"/build/plugins/usdFbx "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib/usd/plugin/usdFbx
49}
50

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