xlibre-video-amdgpu-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer xlibre 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary package (a compiled X.org/XLibre video driver) from x11libre.net, which is a self-hosted distribution site rather than a well-known, widely-trusted package mirror or the upstream GitHub releases page. The binary is a kernel/X server interface driver (.so) that will be installed into the system and executed with elevated privileges during X server operation. While XLibre is a real fork of X.Org and x11libre.net appears to be its official distribution site, the host is not independently verifiable as a major trusted infrastructure (like GitHub releases, PyPI, crates.io, etc.), and there is only a single SHA256 checksum for integrity — no GPG signature verification. The package also uses noextract and manually tars into pkgdir, bypassing normal pacman package validation. If x11libre.net were compromised or the maintainer's control over it were lost, a malicious binary could be silently substituted. This is a genuine supply-chain concern for an executed binary from a non-mainstream host, consistent with a MEDIUM rating.

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:13 source=("https://x11libre.net/repo/arch_based/x86_64/${_pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 82%): This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary package (a compiled X.org/XLibre video driver) from x11libre.net, which is a self-hosted distribution site rather than a well-known, widely-trusted package mirror or the upstream GitHub releases page. The binary is a kernel/X server interface driver (.so) that will be installed into the system and executed with elevated privileges during X server operation. While XLibre is a real fork of X.Org and x11libre.net appears to be its official distribution site, the host is not independently verifiable as a major trusted infrastructure (like GitHub releases, PyPI, crates.io, etc.), and there is only a single SHA256 checksum for integrity — no GPG signature verification. The package also uses noextract and manually tars into pkgdir, bypassing normal pacman package validation. If x11libre.net were compromised or the maintainer's control over it were lost, a malicious binary could be silently substituted. This is a genuine supply-chain concern for an executed binary from a non-mainstream host, consistent with a MEDIUM rating.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: artist for XLibre <artist4xlibre@proton.me>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=xlibre-video-amdgpu-bin
    
      4_pkgname=xlibre-xf86-video-amdgpu
    
      5pkgver=23.0.0.6
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc="XLibre Official Easy Install Drop in Replacement fork of X.Org amdgpu video driver (binary release)"
    
      8arch=(x86_64)
    
      9url="https://github.com/X11Libre"
    
      10license=('MIT')
    
      11groups=('xlibre-drivers')
    
      12options=(!strip)
    
      13source=("https://x11libre.net/repo/arch_based/x86_64/${_pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst")
    
      14noextract=("${_pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst")
    
      15depends=('mesa' 'libdrm' 'glibc')
    
      16provides=('xf86-video-amdgpu' 'xlibre-video-amdgpu')
    
      17conflicts=('xf86-video-amdgpu' 'xlibre-video-amdgpu' 'X-ABI-VIDEODRV_VERSION<28' 'X-ABI-VIDEODRV_VERSION>=29')
    
      18
    
      19sha256sums=('3d65c83bdc1560b3c790ca5d22635262638e32fff11277787ac2eee2f263c4af')
    
      20
    
      21package() {
    
      22  tar -xf "${_pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst" -C "${pkgdir}" usr
    
      23}
    
      24
    
      25

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Medium	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Medium	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Medium	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Medium	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Medium	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Medium	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Medium	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Medium	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Medium	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Medium	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Medium	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Medium	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Medium	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Medium	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Medium	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Medium	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Medium	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Medium	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Medium	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Medium	2