xlibre-video-qxl-bin

MEDIUM

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

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Why flagged

This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary package (a compiled Xorg video driver .pkg.tar.zst) from x11libre.net, a personal/project host that is not an official Arch Linux mirror or well-known vendor CDN. The binary is then extracted and installed directly into the package directory. While a sha256sum is present, it only protects against accidental corruption or a one-time swap — it provides no cryptographic authenticity guarantee (no GPG signature verification). The core concern is that a prebuilt, executed binary (an Xorg DDX driver loaded into the X server process) is sourced from an unofficial third-party host. If x11libre.net were compromised or the domain transferred, a malicious binary could be substituted with a new matching checksum pushed to the PKGBUILD. The XLibre project is a real X.Org fork, but distributing prebuilt binaries from a personal project host rather than building from source is a genuine supply-chain risk for executed code. This is a textbook medium-severity concern.

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/xlibre-video-qxl-0.1.6.3-2-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 Xorg video driver .pkg.tar.zst) from x11libre.net, a personal/project host that is not an official Arch Linux mirror or well-known vendor CDN. The binary is then extracted and installed directly into the package directory. While a sha256sum is present, it only protects against accidental corruption or a one-time swap — it provides no cryptographic authenticity guarantee (no GPG signature verification). The core concern is that a prebuilt, executed binary (an Xorg DDX driver loaded into the X server process) is sourced from an unofficial third-party host. If x11libre.net were compromised or the domain transferred, a malicious binary could be substituted with a new matching checksum pushed to the PKGBUILD. The XLibre project is a real X.Org fork, but distributing prebuilt binaries from a personal project host rather than building from source is a genuine supply-chain risk for executed code. This is a textbook medium-severity concern.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: artist for Xlibre
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=xlibre-video-qxl-bin
    
      4_pkgname=xlibre-xf86-video-qxl
    
      5pkgver=0.1.6.3
    
      6pkgrel=2
    
      7pkgdesc="XLibre Official Easy Install Drop in Replacement fork of X.Org qxl video driver (binary release)"
    
      8arch=(x86_64)
    
      9url=https://x11libre.net/repo/arch_based/x86_64
    
      10license=('MIT')
    
      11groups=('xlibre-drivers')
    
      12options=(!strip)
    
      13source=(https://x11libre.net/repo/arch_based/x86_64/xlibre-video-qxl-0.1.6.3-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst)
    
      14noextract=("${_pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst")
    
      15depends=('spice' 'libxfont2' 'glibc')
    
      16optdepends=('python: for Xspice')
    
      17provides=('xf86-video-qxl' 'xlibre-video-qxl')
    
      18conflicts=('xf86-video-qxl' 'xlibre-video-qxl' 'X-ABI-VIDEODRV_VERSION<28' 'X-ABI-VIDEODRV_VERSION>=29')
    
      19
    
      20sha256sums=('3396dead1d96345b690d989ed84d2d5f29ea0c93ae2b1dd3c0eb57619a0d5f9e')
    
      21
    
      22package() {
    
      23  tar -xf "${_pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst" -C "${pkgdir}" usr
    
      24}
    
      25
    
      26

Scan history

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