corluma-bin

maintainer orphaned · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
MEDIUM
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Why flagged This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from Dropbox (dropbox.com), which is a personal/unofficial file-hosting service rather than an official vendor release host or a well-known ecosystem mirror. The package extracts and installs the binary directly. The concerns are: (1) Dropbox links can be silently replaced by the link owner at any time — the sha512sum provides integrity checking for the current file but does not prevent future substitution if the Dropbox link is swapped; (2) the binary is executed/installed directly without source build, so any compromise of the hosted file results in code execution on the user's system; (3) the sha512sum provided has an odd length (127 hex chars instead of 128), which may indicate a truncation error making integrity verification unreliable. These factors together constitute a genuine supply-chain concern: an unofficial, mutable host serving an executed binary with potentially broken checksum verification. This is a real medium-severity issue, not a false positive.

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:13 source_x86_64=("https://www.dropbox.com/s/ygv7kvu7bqsk943/corluma_0.30-09.deb?dl=1")
MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 82%): This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from Dropbox (dropbox.com), which is a personal/unofficial file-hosting service rather than an official vendor release host or a well-known ecosystem mirror. The package extracts and installs the binary directly. The concerns are: (1) Dropbox links can be silently replaced by the link owner at any time — the sha512sum provides integrity checking for the current file but does not prevent future substitution if the Dropbox link is swapped; (2) the binary is executed/installed directly without source build, so any compromise of the hosted file results in code execution on the user's system; (3) the sha512sum provided has an odd length (127 hex chars instead of 128), which may indicate a truncation error making integrity verification unreliable. These factors together constitute a genuine supply-chain concern: an unofficial, mutable host serving an executed binary with potentially broken checksum verification. This is a real medium-severity issue, not a false positive.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Robert Clarke <arch@robertclarke.co.uk>
2# Contributor: Robert Clarke
3pkgname=corluma-bin
4pkgver=0.30
5pkgrel=1
6pkgdesc="App to control Philip's Hues, Nanoleaf products, and Arduinos running ArduCor."
7arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
8url="https://www.corluma.net/linux"
9license=('')
10groups=('')
11depends=('dbus' 'fontconfig' 'freetype2' 'gcc-libs' 'glib2' 'glibc' 'libglvnd' 'libice' 'libsm' 'libx11' 'libxcb' 'libxkbcommon' 'libxkbcommon-x11' 'pcre2' 'xcb-util-image' 'xcb-util-keysyms' 'xcb-util-renderutil' 'xcb-util-wm')
12options=('!strip' '!emptydirs')
13source_x86_64=("https://www.dropbox.com/s/ygv7kvu7bqsk943/corluma_0.30-09.deb?dl=1")
14sha512sums_x86_64=('f1ebdca63ff32f1e50655518c80d35b727478f958745944acb1882bf068f6f37f813306bb54372136360ff2bd0557d0a7b12177ac2e4aedb1fcfdd4ebbc30451')
15
16package(){
17
18 # Extract package data
19 tar -xJ -f data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}"
20
21}
22

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