cangaroo-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer pineappletoad 0 votes scanned 2026-09-03 13:53:13.144096

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Why flagged

The package installs a precompiled binary from a GitHub release hosted by a third party (not the original project), which introduces a supply-chain risk due to lack of verifiable build process and potential for silent replacement of the binary.

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 90%): The package installs a precompiled binary from a GitHub release hosted by a third party (not the original project), which introduces a supply-chain risk due to lack of verifiable build process and potential for silent replacement of the binary.

PKGBUILD

      1# Maintainer: piratecarrot
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=cangaroo-bin
    
      4pkgver=0.2.2.r64.gca7f907
    
      5_pkgrel_src=11
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc="Open source can bus analyzer software - with support for CANable / CANable2, CANFD, and other new features (precompiled)"
    
      8arch=('x86_64')
    
      9url="https://github.com/normaldotcom/cangaroo"
    
      10license=('GPL-2.0-only')
    
      11options=('!debug')
    
      12provides=('cangaroo')
    
      13conflicts=('cangaroo')
    
      14depends=(
    
      15    'bash'
    
      16    'gcc-libs'
    
      17    'glibc'
    
      18    'libnl'
    
      19    'qt5-charts'
    
      20    'qt5-base'
    
      21    'qt5-serialport'
    
      22)
    
      23
    
      24source=("https://github.com/tubbywrestler/cangaroo-bin/releases/download/${pkgver}-${_pkgrel_src}/cangaroo-${pkgver}-${_pkgrel_src}-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst")
    
      25sha256sums=('d632615ce8605d5a070e30dde32c68c258e5a5d698db3a5bdbc07a261da9cdc7')
    
      26
    
      27package() {
    
      28    bsdtar -xf "${srcdir}/cangaroo-${pkgver}-${_pkgrel_src}-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst" -C "${pkgdir}" --exclude .PKGINFO --exclude .BUILDINFO --exclude .MTREE
    
      29}
    
      30

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Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-03 13:53:13	Medium	2