aurga-viewer-bin

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

LOW

Why flagged Installs a prebuilt proprietary binary from the project's own official GitHub release infrastructure (aurgatech/linux-binaries) with verified sha256 checksums; the icon is fetched from the vendor's own CDN as pure image data. No obfuscation, no untrusted third-party hosts, no credential exfiltration. The only mild concern is that it is a closed-source prebuilt binary, but it comes from the vendor's own release channel with matching checksums.

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LOW Few votes, recently uploaded zero_votes_recent

Uploaded within the last 14 days with 2 or fewer community votes — little peer review so far.

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 70%): Installs a prebuilt proprietary binary from the project's own official GitHub release infrastructure (aurgatech/linux-binaries) with verified sha256 checksums; the icon is fetched from the vendor's own CDN as pure image data. No obfuscation, no untrusted third-party hosts, no credential exfiltration. The only mild concern is that it is a closed-source prebuilt binary, but it comes from the vendor's own release channel with matching checksums.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:13 source=("aurga-viewer.png::https://www.aurga.com/cdn/shop/files/icon_256x256.png")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: deanqx <dean@kowatsch.de>
    
      2pkgname=aurga-viewer-bin
    
      3pkgdesc="Desktop app for the AURGA Viewer"
    
      4pkgver=2.1.0.1
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6arch=('x86_64' 'aarch64')
    
      7url="https://www.aurga.com"
    
      8license=('LicenseRef-Proprietary')
    
      9options=('!strip')
    
      10
    
      11source_x86_64=("https://github.com/aurgatech/linux-binaries/releases/download/v$pkgver/AURGA.Viewer-${pkgver}_x86_64.tar.xz")
    
      12source_aarch64=("https://github.com/aurgatech/linux-binaries/releases/download/v$pkgver/AURGA.Viewer-${pkgver}_aarch64.tar.xz")
    
      13source=("aurga-viewer.png::https://www.aurga.com/cdn/shop/files/icon_256x256.png")
    
      14
    
      15sha256sums=('fbde33f0269a875b1ec64bdc96f77b6227bf41777acd7c20e7e831aeba995d66')
    
      16sha256sums_x86_64=('f7d237b13217f7e0d7f31d207abfb0806ba0a2ce94160718a5ba86d9625b6589')
    
      17sha256sums_aarch64=('03de12ea8c38835141a4d23efa9749a0dad04ae25e486dbd8493b862046a120d')
    
      18
    
      19# verified with namcap
    
      20makedepends=('patchelf')
    
      21depends=(
    
      22    alsa-lib
    
      23    at-spi2-core
    
      24    cairo
    
      25    dbus
    
      26    expat
    
      27    glib2
    
      28    glibc
    
      29    libcups
    
      30    libgcc
    
      31    libglvnd
    
      32    libstdc++
    
      33    libx11
    
      34    libxcb
    
      35    libxcomposite
    
      36    libxdamage
    
      37    libxext
    
      38    libxfixes
    
      39    libxkbcommon
    
      40    libxrandr
    
      41    mesa
    
      42    nspr
    
      43    nss
    
      44    pango
    
      45    systemd-libs
    
      46)
    
      47
    
      48package() {
    
      49    install -dm755 "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgname"
    
      50    install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname"
    
      51
    
      52    cp -r --no-preserve=ownership "$srcdir/aurgav"/* "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgname/"
    
      53
    
      54    install -Dm644 "$srcdir/aurga-viewer.png" \
    
      55        "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/aurga-viewer.png"
    
      56
    
      57    # A constant RUNPATH '/usr/share/aurgav' is compiled in the ELF.
    
      58    # Setting this to current directory.
    
      59    patchelf --set-rpath '$ORIGIN' "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgname/aurgav"
    
      60
    
      61    # The executeable wants to create a desktop file in the home directory but
    
      62    # because this package is installed system wide it should use the system
    
      63    # desktop entry. This is stopped by using `unset HOME`, behaviour was verified with Ghidra.
    
      64    install -Dm755 /dev/stdin "$pkgdir/usr/bin/aurga-viewer" <<EOF
    
      65#!/bin/sh
    
      66unset HOME
    
      67exec /opt/$pkgname/aurgav "\$@"
    
      68EOF
    
      69
    
      70    install -Dm644 /dev/stdin "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/aurga-viewer.desktop" <<EOF
    
      71[Desktop Entry]
    
      72Type=Application
    
      73Name=AURGA Viewer
    
      74Comment=Desktop app for the AURGA Viewer
    
      75Exec=/usr/bin/aurga-viewer %U
    
      76Terminal=false
    
      77Icon=aurga-viewer
    
      78Categories=Utility;Network;
    
      79Keywords=aurga;
    
      80EOF
    
      81
    
      82    chmod 755 "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgname/aurgav"
    
      83    chmod 4755 "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgname/chrome-sandbox" 2>/dev/null || true
    
      84
    
      85    ln -s "/opt/$pkgname/LICENSE.txt" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE.txt"
    
      86}
    
      87

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Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	3
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	3
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	3
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	3
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	3
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	3
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	3
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	3
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	3
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	3
2026-07-24 13:33:15	LOW	3
2026-07-24 13:27:52	MEDIUM	3