chatstack

maintainer jungliztik · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads prebuilt .deb binaries from uploads.stardevelop.com, which is not the official chatstack.com domain but appears to be a related upload/CDN host used by the same vendor (stardevelop.com is the company behind Chatstack). The binaries are extracted and installed directly without rebuilding from source. SHA256 checksums are present and pinned, which mitigates substitution risk somewhat. However, the host is not the canonical vendor domain (chatstack.com), the package is quite old (gtk2, libudev0 dependencies suggest abandoned/unmaintained software), and prebuilt binaries from a secondary host with no source build represent a genuine supply-chain concern. The risk is real but not clearly malicious — this is a legitimate medium rating.

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:22 source_i686=("${pkgname}-beta-i386.deb::https://uploads.stardevelop.com/linux/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-i386.deb")

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The PKGBUILD downloads prebuilt .deb binaries from uploads.stardevelop.com, which is not the official chatstack.com domain but appears to be a related upload/CDN host used by the same vendor (stardevelop.com is the company behind Chatstack). The binaries are extracted and installed directly without rebuilding from source. SHA256 checksums are present and pinned, which mitigates substitution risk somewhat. However, the host is not the canonical vendor domain (chatstack.com), the package is quite old (gtk2, libudev0 dependencies suggest abandoned/unmaintained software), and prebuilt binaries from a secondary host with no source build represent a genuine supply-chain concern. The risk is real but not clearly malicious — this is a legitimate medium rating.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Chatstack (Beta) package
    
      2# Maintained by Dave Saunders - archlinux DOT org AT d-j-s DOT co
    
      3
    
      4pkgname="chatstack"
    
      5pkgver=2.2.5000
    
      6pkgrel=3
    
      7pkgdesc="Live chat application for chatting with your web site visitors.  
    
      8         This package requires a web server that is already running the 
    
      9	 Chatstack server software."
    
      10arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
    
      11license=('MIT' 'unknown')
    
      12
    
      13url="https://www.chatstack.com/"
    
      14
    
      15depends=('gconf' 'glib2' 'gtk2' 'gvfs' 'libcap' 'libgcrypt' 'libnotify' 'libudev0' 'libxtst' 'nss' 'xdg-utils')
    
      16optdepends=('libgnome-keyring' 
    
      17	    'lsb-release')
    
      18options=('!strip' '!emptydirs')
    
      19
    
      20install="${pkgname}.install"
    
      21
    
      22source_i686=("${pkgname}-beta-i386.deb::https://uploads.stardevelop.com/linux/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-i386.deb")
    
      23source_x86_64=("${pkgname}-beta-amd64.deb::https://uploads.stardevelop.com/linux/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-amd64.deb")
    
      24sha256sums_i686=('67417645309af2236166c2403976f91e87a96a6f6e6ee87850a2842f399b10de')
    
      25sha256sums_x86_64=('58cc9c4128172f7c6e2ef14e8402fd62232bbc96a44dd039865bb7879d6131dc')
    
      26
    
      27package () {
    
      28  msg2 "Extracting the useful files..."
    
      29  bsdtar -xf data.tar.xz -C "$pkgdir"
    
      30}
    
      31

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