aurga-viewer-bin

LOW
maintainer deanqx 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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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.

Triggered rules

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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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

1 offending line(s) highlighted
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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