boosteroid

maintainer dj_pask · 9 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
LOW
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Why flagged The package downloads a .deb and its MD5 from the official boosteroid.com domain, verifies the checksum and version, then extracts and installs it; this is a normal build process for a proprietary binary from the project's official source, not a supply-chain risk.

Triggered rules

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a .deb and its MD5 from the official boosteroid.com domain, verifies the checksum and version, then extracts and installs it; this is a normal build process for a proprietary binary from the project's official source, not a supply-chain risk.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:26 "${_custom_name}.deb::https://boosteroid.com/linux/installer/boosteroid-install-x64.deb"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: dj_pask
2# former maintainer: envolution
3# Contributor: Felix Braun <hazzl@falix.de>
4# Contributor: Laurinyecz Zalán <laurinyeczzalan@gmail.com>
5# Contributor: Ernesto Castellotti <mail@ernestocastellotti.it>
6# shellcheck shell=bash disable=SC2034,SC2154
7# 14.04.2026 dj_pask new mantainer
8
9pkgname=boosteroid
10pkgver=1.10.22
11pkgrel=1
12pkgdesc="Boosteroid client desktop"
13arch=('x86_64')
14url="https://boosteroid.com/downloads"
15license=('custom')
16options=(!debug)
17depends=("libva" "libvdpau" "libxcb" "traceroute" "ocl-icd" "pcre2" "libxi" "xcb-util-wm" "xcb-util-image" "xcb-util-renderutil" "xcb-util-keysyms" "xcb-util-keysyms" "fontconfig" "alsa-lib" "pulseaudio-alsa")
18makedepends=("binutils" "tar" "coreutils" "wget")
19
20_custom_name="${pkgname^}-${pkgver}-${CARCH}"
21
22# Set Mozilla as curl useragent to circumvent 403 using curl
23DLAGENTS=("https::/usr/bin/curl -A 'Mozilla' -fLC - --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 -o %o %u")
24
25source=(
26 "${_custom_name}.deb::https://boosteroid.com/linux/installer/boosteroid-install-x64.deb"
27 "${_custom_name}.md5::https://boosteroid.com/linux/installer/boosteroid-install-x64.md5"
28 boosteroid.sh
29)
30md5sums=('8b568c6b6eb6b72148c2615b705241e6'
31 '3ae22a527747a4dde6bb2652e9cdca15'
32 '033cc5b68298d0fe7d36887b5db6f200')
33noextract=("${_custom_name}.deb")
34
35prepare() {
36 #prep deb file for installation
37 msg2 "Decompressing Debian package..."
38 ar xv "${_custom_name}.deb" >/dev/null
39 #tar -xf data.tar.bz2 >/dev/null
40 tar -xf data.tar.xz >/dev/null
41 tar -xf control.tar.gz >/dev/null
42
43 #Versioning confirmation and MD5 verification
44 local _version
45 _version=$(grep -oP "Version: \K[0-9.]+" ./control)
46 msg2 "Detected Debian package version ${_version} ..."
47 msg2 "PKGBUILD package version ${pkgver} ..."
48 [ "${_version}" != "${pkgver}" ] && exit 1
49 msg2 "Checking boosteroid accompanied archive md5 against downloaded installer..."
50 md5sum -c "${_custom_name}.md5" >/dev/null
51
52 #this is the system desktop, which later becomes obsolete as the binary creates a user version in $HOME
53 msg2 "Customising desktop file..."
54 sed -i "s/Exec=.*/Exec=\/usr\/bin\/${pkgname}/g" usr/share/applications/Boosteroid.desktop
55 sed -i "s/Icon=.*/Icon=\/usr\/share\/icons\/hicolor\/scalable\/apps\/${pkgname}.svg/g" usr/share/applications/Boosteroid.desktop
56}
57
58package() {
59 install -dm755 "$pkgdir"/usr/bin
60 install -dm755 "$pkgdir"/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps
61 install -dm755 "$pkgdir"/usr/share/{applications,icons/Boosteroid,licenses/Boosteroid}
62 install -m755 "opt/BoosteroidGamesS.R.L./bin/Boosteroid" "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/"$pkgname".bin #Isolate the binary for our wrapper boosteroid.sh
63 install -m755 boosteroid.sh "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/"${pkgname^}" #The program binary creates a user desktop file pointing to /usr/bin/Boosteroid
64 ln -s "${pkgname^}" "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/"${pkgname}" #we link to /usr/bin/boosteroid
65 install -m644 usr/share/applications/Boosteroid.desktop "$pkgdir"/usr/share/applications/Boosteroid.desktop
66 install -m644 usr/share/icons/Boosteroid/icon.svg "$pkgdir"/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/boosteroid.svg
67 install -m644 opt/BoosteroidGamesS.R.L./bin/ToU.txt "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/Boosteroid/ToU.txt
68}
69
70# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
71

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-07-31 00:14
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
# 14.04.2026 dj_pask new mantainer
pkgname=boosteroid
-pkgver=1.10.14
+pkgver=1.10.22
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Boosteroid client desktop"
arch=('x86_64')
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
"${_custom_name}.md5::https://boosteroid.com/linux/installer/boosteroid-install-x64.md5"
boosteroid.sh
)
-md5sums=('0c7815d4834bb187fe20cc90109468b8'
- '535e750288ded71a82cf84b5b7cfec2f'
+md5sums=('8b568c6b6eb6b72148c2615b705241e6'
+ '3ae22a527747a4dde6bb2652e9cdca15'
'033cc5b68298d0fe7d36887b5db6f200')
noextract=("${_custom_name}.deb")

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
2026-08-03 00:08:14 LOW 2
2026-08-02 00:16:08 LOW 2
2026-08-01 00:11:18 LOW 2
2026-07-31 15:18:17 MEDIUM 1
2026-07-31 00:14:10 LOW 2
2026-07-30 00:17:23 LOW 2
2026-07-29 00:25:53 LOW 2
2026-07-28 00:07:28 LOW 2
2026-07-27 00:24:32 LOW 2
2026-07-26 00:07:32 LOW 2
2026-07-25 00:13:44 LOW 2
2026-07-24 00:02:28 LOW 2
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2026-07-22 00:29:32 LOW 2
2026-07-21 00:24:15 LOW 2
2026-07-20 00:19:49 LOW 2
2026-07-19 00:17:08 LOW 2
2026-07-18 00:14:48 LOW 2
2026-07-17 00:06:16 LOW 2
2026-07-16 00:05:41 LOW 2

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