vulkan-caps-viewer-wayland-bin

LOW
maintainer yochananmarqos 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from the project's official domain (vulkan.gpuinfo.org), which is plausibly the project's own release infrastructure; despite the non-whitelisted host, the source is verifiable via checksum and the AppImage is extracted to install legitimate binaries, posing low risk.

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-2507) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from the project's official domain (vulkan.gpuinfo.org), which is plausibly the project's own release infrastructure; despite the non-whitelisted host, the source is verifiable via checksum and the AppImage is extracted to install legitimate binaries, posing low 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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:19 source_x86_64=("https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/downloads/vulkancapsviewer_${pkgver}_linux64_wayland.AppImage")

PKGBUILD

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1# Maintainer: Mark Wagie <mark dot wagie at proton dot me>
2# Contributor: Eric Engestrom <aur [at] engestrom [dot] ch>
3pkgname=vulkan-caps-viewer-wayland-bin
4pkgver=4.12
5pkgrel=1
6epoch=1
7pkgdesc="Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer"
8arch=('x86_64' 'aarch64')
9url="https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org"
10license=('LGPL-3.0-or-later')
11depends=(
12 'hicolor-icon-theme'
13 'qt6-base'
14 'vulkan-icd-loader'
15 'wayland'
16)
17provides=('vulkan-caps-viewer')
18conflicts=('vulkan-caps-viewer')
19source_x86_64=("https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/downloads/vulkancapsviewer_${pkgver}_linux64_wayland.AppImage")
20source_aarch64=("https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/downloads/vulkancapsviewer_${pkgver}_linux64_wayland_aarch64.AppImage")
21sha256sums_x86_64=('b467ef6cb693c0ba39c4d26b597f2d30b100ad6f7d9b8447b3c9dfa09ecce417')
22sha256sums_aarch64=('bd464b2a18c29e1e84223cc3a19106c46d6762160257604f13d4d9037f920a8b')
23
24prepare() {
25 if [ $CARCH == "aarch64" ]; then
26 chmod +x "vulkancapsviewer_${pkgver}_linux64_aarch64.AppImage"
27 ./"vulkancapsviewer_${pkgver}_linux64_aarch64.AppImage" --appimage-extract
28 else
29 chmod +x "vulkancapsviewer_${pkgver}_linux64_wayland.AppImage"
30 ./"vulkancapsviewer_${pkgver}_linux64_wayland.AppImage" --appimage-extract
31 fi
32}
33
34package() {
35 cd squashfs-root
36 install -Dm755 usr/bin/vulkanCapsViewer -t "$pkgdir/usr/bin/"
37 install -Dm644 usr/share/applications/vulkanCapsViewer.desktop -t \
38 "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/"
39 install -Dm644 usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/vulkanCapsViewer.png -t \
40 "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/"
41}
42

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