foon

maintainer Sterophonick · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt Windows executable (INJECT.EXE) from a Wayback Machine archive of a defunct personal site (pocketheaven.com). While the Wayback Machine URL does provide some historical immutability, the source is an unofficial personal host and the binary is a precompiled executable installed and run via Wine. The md5sum for the zip is provided (1a975a8729e0485ac0cae90d39e64560), which gives some integrity assurance. The package is a GBA emulator for Windows being wrapped in Wine, so INJECT.EXE is likely a legitimate part of the emulator (possibly a GBA ROM injector utility). However, it remains a prebuilt binary from an unofficial/personal host with no way to verify the build provenance, which is a genuine supply-chain concern. The chmod 777 on the directory is sloppy but not a security issue in itself. This is a legitimate medium-risk case: executed binary from an unofficial personal host, not a false positive.

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:11 source=(http://web.archive.org/web/20050205181902/http://foon.pocketheaven.com/downloads/foon022.zip

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The package downloads a prebuilt Windows executable (INJECT.EXE) from a Wayback Machine archive of a defunct personal site (pocketheaven.com). While the Wayback Machine URL does provide some historical immutability, the source is an unofficial personal host and the binary is a precompiled executable installed and run via Wine. The md5sum for the zip is provided (1a975a8729e0485ac0cae90d39e64560), which gives some integrity assurance. The package is a GBA emulator for Windows being wrapped in Wine, so INJECT.EXE is likely a legitimate part of the emulator (possibly a GBA ROM injector utility). However, it remains a prebuilt binary from an unofficial/personal host with no way to verify the build provenance, which is a genuine supply-chain concern. The chmod 777 on the directory is sloppy but not a security issue in itself. This is a legitimate medium-risk case: executed binary from an unofficial personal host, not a false positive.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Sterophonick
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=foon
    
      4_pkgname='foon'
    
      5pkgver=0.22
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc='Spectrum Emulator for the Game Boy Advance'
    
      8url='http://foon.pocketheaven.com'
    
      9arch=(x86_64 i686)
    
      10depends=('wine' 'winetricks')
    
      11source=(http://web.archive.org/web/20050205181902/http://foon.pocketheaven.com/downloads/foon022.zip
    
      12        foon
    
      13        foon.desktop
    
      14        foon.png)
    
      15md5sums=('1a975a8729e0485ac0cae90d39e64560'
    
      16         'SKIP'
    
      17         'SKIP'
    
      18         'SKIP')
    
      19
    
      20
    
      21package() {
    
      22  cd $srcdir
    
      23  install -Dm755 foon $pkgdir/usr/bin/foon
    
      24  install -Dm644 foon.desktop $pkgdir/usr/share/applications/foon.desktop
    
      25  install -Dm644 foon.png $pkgdir/usr/share/pixmaps/foon.png
    
      26  
    
      27  mkdir -p $pkgdir/usr/share/foon
    
      28
    
      29  install -Dm644 INJECT.EXE $pkgdir/usr/share/foon
    
      30  chmod -R 777 $pkgdir/usr/share/foon
    
      31}
    
      32

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