vivacious-colors-gtk-theme

maintainer orphaned · 6 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The source is a GTK theme tarball (pure data: icons, CSS, images) hosted on Google Drive. While Google Drive is not an official upstream release host and the URL could theoretically be swapped, the md5sum provides a fixed integrity check against the downloaded content. The package installs only theme files into /usr/share/themes/ — no binaries, no compiled code, no scripts are executed. The risk profile is low: even if the host were compromised, the worst outcome would be a different theme being installed, not code execution. The cheaper model's concern about 'swappable host' applies equally to any CDN or mirror; what matters is that the content is pure data, not executed code. md5sum is weak but still provides basic integrity verification. This is sloppy packaging (should use a proper release URL) but not a security risk.

Triggered rules

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 72%): The source is a GTK theme tarball (pure data: icons, CSS, images) hosted on Google Drive. While Google Drive is not an official upstream release host and the URL could theoretically be swapped, the md5sum provides a fixed integrity check against the downloaded content. The package installs only theme files into /usr/share/themes/ — no binaries, no compiled code, no scripts are executed. The risk profile is low: even if the host were compromised, the worst outcome would be a different theme being installed, not code execution. The cheaper model's concern about 'swappable host' applies equally to any CDN or mirror; what matters is that the content is pure data, not executed code. md5sum is weak but still provides basic integrity verification. This is sloppy packaging (should use a proper release URL) but not a security 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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:15 source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&confirm=TVT4&id=0B7iDWdwgu9QAMkhfOWh4TUh1RUE")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Lucas Saliés Brum <lucas at archlinux dot com dot br>
    
      2# Maintainer: ThePilot <afuturepilotis at gmail dot com>
    
      3# Contributor: Valerio Pizzi <pival81@yahoo.com>
    
      4
    
      5pkgname=vivacious-colors-gtk-theme
    
      6pkgver=16.04.4
    
      7pkgrel=1
    
      8pkgdesc="Vivacious Colors GTK Theme by the RAVEfinity Open Design Team. Features a clean, vibrant and customizable look in 4 Styles. Light, Dark, Blackout, Fusion (Hybrid). Every style comes in 13 vivid colors. In Regular & Pro Versions."
    
      9arch=('any')
    
      10url="http://www.ravefinity.com/p/vivacious-colors-gtk-theme.html"
    
      11license=('GPL2')
    
      12options=('!strip' '!zipman')
    
      13depends=('gtk-engine-murrine')
    
      14optdepends=('vivacious-colors' 'gtk3>=3.16' 'gtk3<3.20')
    
      15source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&confirm=TVT4&id=0B7iDWdwgu9QAMkhfOWh4TUh1RUE")
    
      16md5sums=('bebf501111f2394f619d8ce504f49758')
    
      17
    
      18package() {
    
      19  	mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/share/themes/"
    
      20	cd "$srcdir/"
    
      21	cp -r Vivacious-* "$pkgdir/usr/share/themes/"
    
      22}
    
      23

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 00:06:16	LOW	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	2