foobar2000-component-uie-albumlist-bin

MEDIUM

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

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt .fb2k-component binary (which is a DLL/plugin) from yuo.be, a personal/unofficial host unrelated to the official foobar2000 project or any recognized software distribution infrastructure. While a sha256sum is provided (mitigating tampering after initial publication), the host itself is not authoritative — the official component page is foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_uie_albumlist, and the binary should ideally come from there or a recognized mirror. A .fb2k-component is an executed DLL loaded into foobar2000's process, so a compromised or substituted binary would result in code execution. The risk is real but not clearly malicious: this is a classic supply-chain concern where a personal hosting domain could be taken over or the file swapped. The sha256 check provides some protection against post-publication substitution but not against the original file being malicious. Rated medium.

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 binary (which is a DLL/plugin) from yuo.be, a personal/unofficial host unrelated to the official foobar2000 project or any recognized software distribution infrastructure. While a sha256sum is provided (mitigating tampering after initial publication), the host itself is not authoritative — the official component page is foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_uie_albumlist, and the binary should ideally come from there or a recognized mirror. A .fb2k-component is an executed DLL loaded into foobar2000's process, so a compromised or substituted binary would result in code execution. The risk is real but not clearly malicious: this is a classic supply-chain concern where a personal hosting domain could be taken over or the file swapped. The sha256 check provides some protection against post-publication substitution but not against the original file being malicious. Rated medium.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Connor McFarlane <cm at semtex dot net>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=foobar2000-component-uie-albumlist-bin
    
      4pkgver=0.4.2
    
      5pkgrel=2
    
      6_buildhash='02df5f316cef8827660122d31508c145'
    
      7_fooname='foo_uie_albumlist'
    
      8pkgdesc='A Columns UI album list panel for foobar2000'
    
      9arch=('any')
    
      10url="https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/${_fooname}"
    
      11license=('unknown')
    
      12depends=('foobar2000>=1.0.0' 'foobar2000-component-ui-columns-bin>=1.0.0')
    
      13source=("${_fooname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}.fb2k-component::https://yuo.be/static/${_buildhash}/${_fooname}-${pkgver}.fb2k-component")
    
      14sha256sums=('ea7b39050839fe64cdd1ae2db9e57f69d613ca55335c8bf1a3ec8fc3bfab0603')
    
      15
    
      16package() {
    
      17  install -Dm644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/foobar2000/components/${_fooname}" "$srcdir/${_fooname}.dll"
    
      18}
    
      19
    
      20

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 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
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Medium	2