bettbox-pre-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer VillagerTom 0 votes scanned 2026-10-06 00:13:36.889724

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Why flagged

The package downloads prebuilt .deb binaries from a GitHub release on a non-whitelisted host (GitHub is generally trusted but the project's ownership and build provenance are unclear due to low votes and recent upload), which are then unpacked and installed; this creates a supply-chain risk if the upstream binaries are compromised or malicious.

Triggered rules

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.

Medium AI review of an ambiguous pattern llm_review

The static rules found a suspicious pattern they could not resolve, so an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed it and judged it MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads prebuilt .deb binaries from a GitHub release on a non-whitelisted host (GitHub is generally trusted but the project's ownership and build provenance are unclear due to low votes and recent upload), which are then unpacked and installed; this creates a supply-chain risk if the upstream binaries are compromised or malicious.

PKGBUILD

      1# Maintainer: VillagerTom <villager-tom at proton dot me>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=bettbox-pre-bin
    
      4_pkgname=Bettbox
    
      5pkgver=1.19.4
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7_pkgver="${pkgver/pre/-pre}"
    
      8pkgdesc="A multi-platform proxy client powered by the Mihomo (Clash Meta) core, refactored based on early versions of FlClash."
    
      9arch=('x86_64' 'aarch64')
    
      10url="https://github.com/appshubcc/${_pkgname}"
    
      11license=('GPL-3.0-or-later')
    
      12conflicts=('bettbox' 'bettbox-compatible' 'bettbox-compatible-pre' 'bettbox-compatible-bin' 'bettbox-bin' 'bettbox-pre' 'bettbox-compatible-pre-bin')
    
      13provides=("${pkgname%-pre-bin}=${pkgver}")
    
      14depends=(
    
      15    'gtk3'
    
      16    'libayatana-appindicator'
    
      17    'libkeybinder3'
    
      18)
    
      19optdepends=('polkit: for TUN authorization')
    
      20options=('!debug')
    
      21source=("restart-bettbox.hook")
    
      22# Upstream names its debs by Debian architecture (amd64/arm64), which does not
    
      23# match the AUR architecture names, so both the cache name and the URL are
    
      24# spelled out per architecture. ${arch} cannot be used here: makepkg binds it
    
      25# to the *host* architecture while expanding per-arch arrays, so it would give
    
      26# both entries the same cache name.
    
      27source_x86_64=(
    
      28    "${pkgname%-pre-bin}-${pkgver}-x86_64.deb::${url}/releases/download/v${_pkgver}/${_pkgname}-${_pkgver%-pre*}-linux-amd64.deb"
    
      29)
    
      30source_aarch64=(
    
      31    "${pkgname%-pre-bin}-${pkgver}-aarch64.deb::${url}/releases/download/v${_pkgver}/${_pkgname}-${_pkgver%-pre*}-linux-arm64.deb"
    
      32)
    
      33sha256sums=('03d4aadb32c7a3876ac3dbafeb3d2ecd38b0fc87d19ff57d5dc46d452fd026a2')
    
      34sha256sums_x86_64=('5e9133e3fd6249ae09b26a93051075dc82fa6b7255ce1a7c14b43113e7effc80')
    
      35sha256sums_aarch64=('4422a41e8456647ecbe3d7ab07e7c763f899f3208eb79007a419b53f180bdc40')
    
      36
    
      37prepare() {
    
      38    bsdtar -xf "${srcdir}/data."*
    
      39    # Upstream already ships Categories=Network; (line 8), so only the missing
    
      40    # StartupWMClass is inserted, right before StartupNotify=true (line 10).
    
      41    sed -i -e "
    
      42        s/Exec=${_pkgname}/Exec=${pkgname%-pre-bin}/g
    
      43        s/Icon=${_pkgname}/Icon=${pkgname%-pre-bin}/g
    
      44        10i\StartupWMClass=com.appshub.bettbox
    
      45    " "${srcdir}/usr/share/applications/${_pkgname}.desktop"
    
      46}
    
      47
    
      48package() {
    
      49    install -Dm755 -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      50    ln -s "/usr/lib/${pkgname%-pre-bin}/${_pkgname}" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname%-pre-bin}"
    
      51    install -Dm755 -d "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/${pkgname%-pre-bin}"
    
      52    cp -Pr --no-preserve=ownership "${srcdir}/usr/share/${_pkgname}/"* "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/${pkgname%-pre-bin}/"
    
      53    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/usr/share/applications/${_pkgname}.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${pkgname%-pre-bin}.desktop"
    
      54    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/${_pkgname}.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/${pkgname%-pre-bin}.png"
    
      55    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/${_pkgname}.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/${pkgname%-pre-bin}.png"
    
      56
    
      57    install -Dm644 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/libalpm/hooks/" "${srcdir}/restart-bettbox.hook"
    
      58
    
      59    # Set setuid on BettboxCore for TUN mode (to avoid password prompt)
    
      60    chmod u+sx "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/${pkgname%-pre-bin}/BettboxCore"
    
      61}
    
      62

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-10-06 00:13:36	Medium	2
2026-10-05 23:40:58	Low	1