foobar2000-component-musical-spectrum-bin

maintainer defusq · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The source is a prebuilt Windows DLL (foo_musical_spectrum.dll) downloaded from a forum attachment URL on hydrogenaud.io. While hydrogenaud.io is a well-known audio enthusiast community and the URL references a specific forum attachment ID, forum attachment URLs are not official vendor release channels and can be silently replaced or removed. The DLL is installed directly without any signature verification beyond an MD5 checksum (which provides integrity but not authenticity). However, the impact is somewhat limited: this is a foobar2000 component (Windows-only DLL) being installed into /usr/share/foobar2000/components, so it only executes within foobar2000's plugin sandbox on a Windows application running under Wine. The md5sum provides basic integrity checking. The concern is real but moderate: a forum attachment from a community site with only MD5 verification is a genuine supply-chain concern for an executed binary, justifying MEDIUM rather than clean or low.

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:12 source=('https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=97404.0;attach=7189')

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The source is a prebuilt Windows DLL (foo_musical_spectrum.dll) downloaded from a forum attachment URL on hydrogenaud.io. While hydrogenaud.io is a well-known audio enthusiast community and the URL references a specific forum attachment ID, forum attachment URLs are not official vendor release channels and can be silently replaced or removed. The DLL is installed directly without any signature verification beyond an MD5 checksum (which provides integrity but not authenticity). However, the impact is somewhat limited: this is a foobar2000 component (Windows-only DLL) being installed into /usr/share/foobar2000/components, so it only executes within foobar2000's plugin sandbox on a Windows application running under Wine. The md5sum provides basic integrity checking. The concern is real but moderate: a forum attachment from a community site with only MD5 verification is a genuine supply-chain concern for an executed binary, justifying MEDIUM rather than clean or low.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Connor McFarlane <cm at semtex dot net>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=foobar2000-component-musical-spectrum-bin
    
      4pkgver=0.9.1
    
      5pkgrel=4
    
      6_fooname='foo_musical_spectrum'
    
      7pkgdesc='A spectrum analyser visulisation component for foobar2000'
    
      8arch=('any')
    
      9url='https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Components/Musical_Spectrum_(foo_musical_spectrum)'
    
      10license=('unknown')
    
      11depends=('foobar2000>=1.0.0')
    
      12source=('https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=97404.0;attach=7189')
    
      13md5sums=('5a7317c95ead1ac48d05cf5512337a95')
    
      14
    
      15package() {
    
      16  install -Dm644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/foobar2000/components/${_fooname}" "$srcdir/${_fooname}.dll"
    
      17}
    
      18
    
      19

Scan history

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2026-08-03 00:08:14	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	MEDIUM	2
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2026-07-27 00:24:32	MEDIUM	2
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2026-07-23 00:14:47	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	MEDIUM	2