cosmic-ext-applet-clippy-land-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer smiley 0 votes scanned 2026-10-23 15:37:50.087015

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Why flagged

The package installs a prebuilt binary from a GitHub release (unofficial host for binaries), which is unverifiable and could be silently swapped; worst case is remote code execution via trojaned binary.

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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 95%): The package installs a prebuilt binary from a GitHub release (unofficial host for binaries), which is unverifiable and could be silently swapped; worst case is remote code execution via trojaned binary.

PKGBUILD

      1# Maintainer: smiley <smiley@archlinux.org>
    
      2pkgname=cosmic-ext-applet-clippy-land-bin
    
      3_pkgname=cosmic-ext-applet-clippy-land
    
      4pkgver=1.1.2
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="Clipboard history applet for the COSMIC panel (prebuilt binary)"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://github.com/k33wee/clippy-land"
    
      9license=('GPL-3.0-or-later')
    
      10depends=('cosmic-panel' 'cosmic-icon-theme' 'fontconfig' 'glibc' 'libgcc'
    
      11         'libglvnd' 'libxkbcommon' 'wayland')
    
      12provides=("$_pkgname=$pkgver")
    
      13conflicts=("$_pkgname" "$_pkgname-git")
    
      14options=('!strip' '!debug')
    
      15source=("cosmic-applet-clippy-land_${pkgver}_amd64.deb::$url/releases/download/v$pkgver/cosmic-applet-clippy-land_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
    
      16        "LICENSE-$pkgver::https://raw.githubusercontent.com/k33wee/clippy-land/v$pkgver/LICENSE")
    
      17noextract=("cosmic-applet-clippy-land_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
    
      18sha256sums=('9d7b4d845291ad5e7077c116afcd227cd8684e9b51e70d50065af0bd2ad02c97'
    
      19            '3972dc9744f6499f0f9b2dbf76696f2ae7ad8af9b23dde66d6af86c9dfb36986')
    
      20
    
      21prepare() {
    
      22  mkdir -p data
    
      23  bsdtar -xOf "cosmic-applet-clippy-land_${pkgver}_amd64.deb" 'data.tar.*' | bsdtar -xf - -C data
    
      24}
    
      25
    
      26package() {
    
      27  cp -a data/usr "$pkgdir/"
    
      28  install -Dm644 "LICENSE-$pkgver" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
    
      29}
    
      30

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