dnclient

MEDIUM

maintainer DefinedNet 1 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads prebuilt .deb binaries from a non-whitelisted host (dl.defined.net), which are then extracted and installed; while the host appears legitimate and checksums are provided, the use of unverifiable prebuilt executables from a proprietary vendor creates a supply-chain risk if the host were compromised or the downloads silently swapped.

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:17 source_x86_64=("https://dl.defined.net/stable/apt/dnclient/dnclient_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads prebuilt .deb binaries from a non-whitelisted host (dl.defined.net), which are then extracted and installed; while the host appears legitimate and checksums are provided, the use of unverifiable prebuilt executables from a proprietary vendor creates a supply-chain risk if the host were compromised or the downloads silently swapped.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Defined Networking, Inc. <support@defined.net>
    
      2pkgname=dnclient
    
      3pkgver=0.9.7
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="Managed Nebula client for Defined Networking overlay networks"
    
      6arch=('x86_64' 'aarch64')
    
      7url="https://www.defined.net"
    
      8license=('LicenseRef-Proprietary')
    
      9backup=('etc/conf.d/dnclient')
    
      10install=dnclient.install
    
      11options=('!strip' '!debug')
    
      12
    
      13source=('dnclient.service'
    
      14        'dnclient@.service'
    
      15        'dnclient.confd'
    
      16        'LICENSE')
    
      17source_x86_64=("https://dl.defined.net/stable/apt/dnclient/dnclient_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
    
      18source_aarch64=("https://dl.defined.net/stable/apt/dnclient/dnclient_${pkgver}_arm64.deb")
    
      19noextract=("dnclient_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
    
      20           "dnclient_${pkgver}_arm64.deb")
    
      21sha256sums=('ebc3679e59c50233f81be93de9232928adcd6c2b9a37d19ca8bb3614c3d55e3f'
    
      22            'dce83e9fdb6cf1b2e42b726f768afea556af42472b428a2da839cbc64b5abf37'
    
      23            'ecdce0108e62d88853513bc5ec0e95601293558bc16738f7e2cbcf174ffd0d74'
    
      24            '7f753320cbb045dd01674a227acb69368baa92dfb3da50bcd4a9c5598bcb8d7c')
    
      25sha256sums_x86_64=('b51f39d0da680a1cf41cef4d75824bccd31fc8da355876044d54141d63cdca8e')
    
      26sha256sums_aarch64=('4246a4f101216a3e8e7486b5e92123ea5e39b1d17f02aae383f2fa214fd5966d')
    
      27
    
      28case "$CARCH" in
    
      29	x86_64) _debarch=amd64 ;;
    
      30	aarch64) _debarch=arm64 ;;
    
      31esac
    
      32
    
      33prepare() {
    
      34	mkdir -p deb
    
      35	bsdtar -xOf "dnclient_${pkgver}_${_debarch}.deb" 'data.tar.*' | bsdtar -xf - -C deb
    
      36	# The deb man page references Debian paths in its FILES section.
    
      37	gunzip -f deb/usr/share/man/man1/dnclient.1.gz
    
      38	sed -i \
    
      39		-e 's|/etc/default/dnclient|/etc/conf.d/dnclient|g' \
    
      40		-e 's|/lib/systemd/system/|/usr/lib/systemd/system/|g' \
    
      41		deb/usr/share/man/man1/dnclient.1
    
      42	grep -q '/etc/conf.d/dnclient' deb/usr/share/man/man1/dnclient.1
    
      43	grep -q '/usr/lib/systemd/system/' deb/usr/share/man/man1/dnclient.1
    
      44	# The unit-path sed matches a substring of the /usr form; if the deb man
    
      45	# page ever moves to /usr/lib itself, it would double the prefix.
    
      46	! grep -q '/usr/usr/' deb/usr/share/man/man1/dnclient.1
    
      47}
    
      48
    
      49package() {
    
      50	install -Dm755 deb/usr/bin/dnclient "$pkgdir/usr/bin/dnclient"
    
      51	install -Dm644 deb/usr/share/man/man1/dnclient.1 "$pkgdir/usr/share/man/man1/dnclient.1"
    
      52	# -n keeps the gzip header free of filename/mtime for reproducible builds.
    
      53	gzip -9n "$pkgdir/usr/share/man/man1/dnclient.1"
    
      54	install -Dm644 dnclient.service "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system/dnclient.service"
    
      55	install -Dm644 dnclient@.service "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system/dnclient@.service"
    
      56	install -Dm644 dnclient.confd "$pkgdir/etc/conf.d/dnclient"
    
      57	install -Dm644 LICENSE "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
    
      58	# Persistent state directory, kept in the package so pacman creates it
    
      59	# with the right mode before the first service start.
    
      60	install -dm700 "$pkgdir/var/lib/defined"
    
      61}
    
      62

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Medium	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Medium	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Medium	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Medium	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Medium	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Medium	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Medium	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Medium	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Medium	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Medium	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Medium	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Medium	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Medium	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Medium	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Medium	2
2026-09-02 15:51:02	Medium	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Medium	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Medium	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Medium	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Medium	2