vulkan-caps-viewer-wayland-bin

LOW

maintainer yochananmarqos 0 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Low	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Low	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Low	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Low	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Low	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Low	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Low	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Low	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Low	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Low	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Low	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Low	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Low	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Low	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Low	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Low	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Low	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Low	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Low	2
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Low	2