airsend-desktop

maintainer orphaned · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged A prebuilt binary .deb is downloaded from patch.codelathe.com, which is a subdomain of codelathe.com — the company behind AirSend/CodeLathe. This is plausibly the official vendor distribution host, not a random personal server. However, several concerns remain: (1) the source URL points to a mutable, unversioned path ('AirSend-Setup.deb') rather than a versioned artifact, meaning the file can be silently replaced at any time without changing the URL; (2) the sha256sum provides a point-in-time integrity check but cannot protect against future substitution since the URL is not pinned to a specific version; (3) the package() function extracts and installs a prebuilt binary directly into pkgdir without any inspection or sandboxing — whatever is in the .deb is executed as root during install; (4) the bsdtar call operates on 'data.tar.xz' without first extracting it from the .deb, suggesting the build may be broken or relies on a prepare() step that is missing. The combination of a mutable binary URL and direct installation of an opaque prebuilt binary from a non-standard (even if plausibly official) host constitutes a genuine medium-severity supply-chain 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:12 source=("https://patch.codelathe.com/airsend/live/installer/linux/AirSend-Setup.deb")

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): A prebuilt binary .deb is downloaded from patch.codelathe.com, which is a subdomain of codelathe.com — the company behind AirSend/CodeLathe. This is plausibly the official vendor distribution host, not a random personal server. However, several concerns remain: (1) the source URL points to a mutable, unversioned path ('AirSend-Setup.deb') rather than a versioned artifact, meaning the file can be silently replaced at any time without changing the URL; (2) the sha256sum provides a point-in-time integrity check but cannot protect against future substitution since the URL is not pinned to a specific version; (3) the package() function extracts and installs a prebuilt binary directly into pkgdir without any inspection or sandboxing — whatever is in the .deb is executed as root during install; (4) the bsdtar call operates on 'data.tar.xz' without first extracting it from the .deb, suggesting the build may be broken or relies on a prepare() step that is missing. The combination of a mutable binary URL and direct installation of an opaque prebuilt binary from a non-standard (even if plausibly official) host constitutes a genuine medium-severity supply-chain concern.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: WhriedPlanck
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=airsend-desktop
    
      4pkgver=1.9.78
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="Simple Communication and Collaboration with clients, team members or anyone to get work done"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://www.airsend.io/"
    
      9license=('custom')
    
      10depends=('libxss' 'gtk3' 'nss')
    
      11provides=('airsend')
    
      12source=("https://patch.codelathe.com/airsend/live/installer/linux/AirSend-Setup.deb")
    
      13sha256sums=('905c79ccad7b8f365a922bbe54782245d4c994bed486c4f326cb5032315ad64c')
    
      14
    
      15package() {
    
      16  bsdtar -xf data.tar.xz -C "$pkgdir"
    
      17  cd "${pkgdir}"
    
      18  #install -Dm644 "${srcdir}"/LICENSE usr/share/licenses/electron-lark-bin/LICENSE
    
      19  #chmod 755 opt/
    
      20  #chmod 755 usr/
    
      21  #chmod 755 usr/share/
    
      22  #chmod 755 usr/share/applications/
    
      23}
    
      24

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2026-08-03 00:08:14	MEDIUM	2
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