bide

MEDIUM

maintainer Eragon 3 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The source is a prebuilt JAR file downloaded from planet-casio.com (a French calculator community site), not from the official GitHub repository (github.com/Zezombye/BIDE). The JAR is executed at runtime by the user's JVM, making it effectively an executed binary from a third-party host. While planet-casio.com is a well-known community site for Casio calculator software and this appears to be a legitimate community distribution point for this tool, it is not the upstream's own release infrastructure. The sha256sum provides integrity checking against a known-good hash, which mitigates (but does not eliminate) the supply-chain risk of the host being compromised or the file being swapped. The risk is real but modest: a compromised planet-casio.com download could deliver a malicious JAR. This fits the medium category — an executed binary from an unofficial/non-primary host with integrity checking present.

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:14 "${pkgname}-${pkgver}.zip::https://www.planet-casio.com/Fr/logiciels/dl_logiciel.php?id=118&file=1"

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The source is a prebuilt JAR file downloaded from planet-casio.com (a French calculator community site), not from the official GitHub repository (github.com/Zezombye/BIDE). The JAR is executed at runtime by the user's JVM, making it effectively an executed binary from a third-party host. While planet-casio.com is a well-known community site for Casio calculator software and this appears to be a legitimate community distribution point for this tool, it is not the upstream's own release infrastructure. The sha256sum provides integrity checking against a known-good hash, which mitigates (but does not eliminate) the supply-chain risk of the host being compromised or the file being swapped. The risk is real but modest: a compromised planet-casio.com download could deliver a malicious JAR. This fits the medium category — an executed binary from an unofficial/non-primary host with integrity checking present.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Eragon <eragon at eragon dot re>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=bide
    
      4pkgver=4.4
    
      5pkgrel=5
    
      6pkgdesc="BIDE, Basic IDE by Zezombye"
    
      7arch=("any")
    
      8url="https://github.com/Zezombye/BIDE"
    
      9license=('GPL')
    
      10depends=("java-runtime=8")
    
      11makedepends=("unzip")
    
      12provides=("bide")
    
      13source=(
    
      14	"${pkgname}-${pkgver}.zip::https://www.planet-casio.com/Fr/logiciels/dl_logiciel.php?id=118&file=1"
    
      15	"bide.desktop")
    
      16sha256sums=(
    
      17	'c1dab3f491405c4d395379e2042ad5eec4507bd50cedf39651cb71fb9a83ec65'
    
      18	'3916d089e4aba7483e2a846dd3422b2d6dcd4d187d8b983c2e696d78f0814aaa')
    
      19
    
      20build() {
    
      21	unzip -o "${pkgname}-${pkgver}.zip"
    
      22	unzip -o BIDE.jar
    
      23}
    
      24
    
      25package() {
    
      26	mkdir -p $pkgdir/opt/bide
    
      27	cp BIDE.jar $pkgdir/opt/bide/bide.jar
    
      28	cp images/BIDEicon.png $pkgdir/opt/bide/bide_icon.png
    
      29	mkdir -p $pkgdir/usr/share/applications/
    
      30	cp bide.desktop $pkgdir/usr/share/applications/bide.desktop
    
      31}
    
      32

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