foobar2000-component-ui-columns-bin

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

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt .fb2k-component file (which is a Windows DLL/plugin archive) from yuo.be, a personal/unofficial host. While a sha256sum is provided, the host is not the official foobar2000 component repository or any recognized CDN. The .fb2k-component is installed as a DLL that will be executed by foobar2000. The concern is that yuo.be is a personal domain with no accountability — if the host were compromised or the file swapped, the sha256 would catch it, but the source itself is not verifiable as the canonical upstream release. The official download URL for Columns UI is typically from github.com/reupen/columns_ui or the foobar2000 component page, not a personal static host. This is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain concern: an executed binary component from an unofficial personal host, mitigated only by the sha256 checksum.

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=("${_fooname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}.fb2k-component::https://yuo.be/static/${_buildhash}/${_fooname}-${pkgver}.fb2k-component")

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt .fb2k-component file (which is a Windows DLL/plugin archive) from yuo.be, a personal/unofficial host. While a sha256sum is provided, the host is not the official foobar2000 component repository or any recognized CDN. The .fb2k-component is installed as a DLL that will be executed by foobar2000. The concern is that yuo.be is a personal domain with no accountability — if the host were compromised or the file swapped, the sha256 would catch it, but the source itself is not verifiable as the canonical upstream release. The official download URL for Columns UI is typically from github.com/reupen/columns_ui or the foobar2000 component page, not a personal static host. This is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain concern: an executed binary component from an unofficial personal host, mitigated only by the sha256 checksum.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Connor McFarlane <cm at semtex dot net>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=foobar2000-component-ui-columns-bin
    
      4pkgver=1.7.0
    
      5pkgrel=3
    
      6_buildhash='8190fc57de8a5a42057f3022ea79d637'
    
      7_fooname='foo_ui_columns'
    
      8pkgdesc='An alternative user interface for foobar2000'
    
      9arch=('any')
    
      10url="https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/${_fooname}"
    
      11license=('unknown')
    
      12depends=('foobar2000>=1.0.0')
    
      13source=("${_fooname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}.fb2k-component::https://yuo.be/static/${_buildhash}/${_fooname}-${pkgver}.fb2k-component")
    
      14sha256sums=('1031ca8f5b9726e8e9a18824928298202ce5ff9f46e3b3a80cbb1f513c4d8cb2')
    
      15
    
      16package() {
    
      17  install -Dm644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/foobar2000/components/${_fooname}" "$srcdir/${_fooname}.dll"
    
      18}
    
      19
    
      20

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