vuescan-bin

maintainer FabioLolix · 54 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads prebuilt RPMs from the official vendor's domain (hamrick.com) which is the project's own release infrastructure, making it a legitimate source despite the non-whitelisted host and skipped checksums; the worst case of a swapped source would be code execution, but the origin is official and expected for this proprietary software.

Triggered rules

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads prebuilt RPMs from the official vendor's domain (hamrick.com) which is the project's own release infrastructure, making it a legitimate source despite the non-whitelisted host and skipped checksums; the worst case of a swapped source would be code execution, but the origin is official and expected for this proprietary software.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:19 source_i686=("vuescan-x32-$(date +%F-%H).rpm::https://www.hamrick.com/files/vuex3298.rpm")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Fabio 'Lolix' Loli <fabio.loli@disroot.org> -> https://github.com/FabioLolix
    
      2# Contributor: wget
    
      3# Contributor: ninian <mcfadzean.org.uk ta linux>
    
      4
    
      5pkgname=vuescan-bin
    
      6pkgver=9.8.51
    
      7pkgrel=1
    
      8pkgdesc="A powerful proprietary scanning tool developed by Hamrick Software"
    
      9arch=(i686 x86_64 aarch64)
    
      10url="https://www.hamrick.com/"
    
      11license=('custom')
    
      12depends=(gtk3) #libsm libusb
    
      13makedepends=(wget)
    
      14#optdepends=('gtk-engine-murrine: optional theme engine')
    
      15options=(!strip) # required to accept registration details
    
      16source=(
    
      17    "vuescan-LICENSE.txt"
    
      18)
    
      19source_i686=("vuescan-x32-$(date +%F-%H).rpm::https://www.hamrick.com/files/vuex3298.rpm")
    
      20source_x86_64=("vuescan-x64-$(date +%F-%H).rpm::https://www.hamrick.com/files/vuex6498.rpm")
    
      21source_aarch64=("vuescan-arm64-$(date +%F-%H).rpm::https://www.hamrick.com/files/vuea6498.rpm")
    
      22# To recompute digests for ocr_* files using the same ordering as the Hamrick
    
      23# website, use this:
    
      24# for i in $(grep  ocr_ PKGBUILD | grep http | cut -d '/' -f 5); do echo "'"$(sha256sum "$i" | cut -d ' ' -f 1)"'"; done
    
      25# But we are skipping them
    
      26sha256sums=('6dbe377ee83561ef0b12fec64dadb5c81beb1f9ee274284c09184366bad1a6d6')
    
      27sha256sums_i686=('SKIP')
    
      28sha256sums_x86_64=('SKIP')
    
      29sha256sums_aarch64=('SKIP')
    
      30
    
      31pkgver() {
    
      32  printf "%s" "$(wget -qO- https://www.hamrick.com/alternate-versions.html | grep -E '<a href.*[0-9]+\.[0-9]+' | head -1 | sed -E 's/^.*([0-9]+[.][0-9]+[.][0-9]+).*$/\1/')"
    
      33}
    
      34
    
      35package() {
    
      36  cp -a "${srcdir}"/usr "${pkgdir}"/
    
      37  cp -a "${srcdir}"/lib "${pkgdir}"/usr
    
      38
    
      39  # ocr files need to be alongside the vuescan executable. Solution: move the
    
      40  # vuescan executable to lib and symlink /usr/bin/vuescan to the executable
    
      41  # now being in lib.
    
      42  install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/vuescan"
    
      43  mv "${pkgdir}"/usr/bin/* "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/vuescan"
    
      44  ln -s /usr/lib/vuescan/vuescan "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/vuescan"
    
      45
    
      46  install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/vuescan-LICENSE.txt" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE.txt"
    
      47}
    
      48

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