dehelper

MEDIUM

maintainer sukanka 0 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt proprietary binary .deb from static.frdic.com (the CDN/static host for the Eudic/Frdic dictionary software vendor), extracts it, and installs the binary directly. The host is the official vendor's static asset server (frdic.com is the Chinese developer of Eudic dictionaries), not a random personal host, so this is a legitimate vendor distribution pattern. However, the URL uses a query parameter (?v=_date) rather than a versioned path, meaning the same URL could serve different content over time without the sha512sum changing in the PKGBUILD — though the sha512sum does pin the specific binary. The real concern is that this is a closed-source prebuilt binary from a Chinese software vendor installed directly, with no source verification beyond the checksum. The sha512sum provides integrity protection against CDN substitution. This is a standard pattern for proprietary Linux software distributed as .deb packages (similar to many AUR packages for commercial software). The risk is real but typical for this class of package — it is a medium concern due to the prebuilt binary from a vendor CDN, but not elevated beyond that.

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:20 source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://static.frdic.com/pkg/${pkgname}.deb?v=${_date}")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt proprietary binary .deb from static.frdic.com (the CDN/static host for the Eudic/Frdic dictionary software vendor), extracts it, and installs the binary directly. The host is the official vendor's static asset server (frdic.com is the Chinese developer of Eudic dictionaries), not a random personal host, so this is a legitimate vendor distribution pattern. However, the URL uses a query parameter (?v=_date) rather than a versioned path, meaning the same URL could serve different content over time without the sha512sum changing in the PKGBUILD — though the sha512sum does pin the specific binary. The real concern is that this is a closed-source prebuilt binary from a Chinese software vendor installed directly, with no source verification beyond the checksum. The sha512sum provides integrity protection against CDN substitution. This is a standard pattern for proprietary Linux software distributed as .deb packages (similar to many AUR packages for commercial software). The risk is real but typical for this class of package — it is a medium concern due to the prebuilt binary from a vendor CDN, but not elevated beyond that.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: yjun <jerrysteve1101 at gmail dot com>
    
      2# Maintainer: sukanka <su975853527 at gmail dot com>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=dehelper
    
      5pkgver=13.5.2
    
      6_date=2024-04-19
    
      7_lang=de
    
      8_flang=German
    
      9pkgrel=1
    
      10pkgdesc="Proprietary  ${_flang} dictionary software for linux"
    
      11arch=('x86_64')
    
      12url="https://www.eudic.net/v4/${_lang}/app/${pkgname}"
    
      13license=('unknown')
    
      14depends=(
    
      15  'hicolor-icon-theme'
    
      16  'qt5-speech'
    
      17  'qt5-webkit'
    
      18)
    
      19provides=("eudic-${_lang}")
    
      20source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://static.frdic.com/pkg/${pkgname}.deb?v=${_date}")
    
      21sha512sums=('071bf1f74f08792fbf598fadb6c87c803e7989f3408c5dbcfbfa8d8189ff459e954786677fc310b2fa31f623e780a3df54dee72e2a31f2649ad4a1e447e95c18')
    
      22
    
      23# sometime use curl to download source deb, throws 404 not found.
    
      24# user other UA instead of origion one fixed it.
    
      25# https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nonfree_applications_package_guidelines#Custom_DLAGENTS
    
      26DLAGENTS=("https::/usr/bin/curl -A 'Mozilla' -fLC - --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 -o %o %u")
    
      27
    
      28prepare() {
    
      29  mkdir -p build
    
      30
    
      31  tar -xf data.tar.xz -C build
    
      32}
    
      33
    
      34package() {
    
      35  _dirname=eusoft-${pkgname}
    
      36
    
      37  install -dm755 ${pkgdir}/usr/share
    
      38
    
      39  cp -pvr build/usr/share/* ${pkgdir}/usr/share/
    
      40
    
      41  # link executable
    
      42  install -dm755 ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/
    
      43  ln -s /usr/share/${_dirname}/${pkgname} \
    
      44    ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}
    
      45
    
      46  # desktop entry
    
      47  sed -i "s|/usr/share/${_dirname}/AppRun|${pkgname}|g" \
    
      48    ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/eusoft-${pkgname}.desktop
    
      49
    
      50  # qt plugin path
    
      51  sed -i '4c Prefix = /usr/lib/qt/' \
    
      52    ${pkgdir}/usr/share/${_dirname}/qt.conf
    
      53
    
      54  # remove unused files.
    
      55  rm -rf ${pkgdir}/usr/share/${_dirname}/{gstreamer-1.0,lib,libcrypto.so.1.0.0,libssl.so.1.0.0,AppRun,plugins,lib*}
    
      56}
    
      57# vim: ts=2 sw=2 et:
    
      58

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2026-11-01 00:21:48	Medium	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Medium	2
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2026-10-29 00:13:55	Medium	2
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