gnome-encfs-manager-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer xiota 12 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from ppa.launchpadcontent.net, which is Canonical's official Launchpad PPA hosting infrastructure — not a random personal server. However, PPAs are user-controlled repositories where the PPA owner (gencfsm) can push arbitrary binaries at any time without independent review. The sha256sum pins a specific version, which mitigates silent substitution of the exact file, but the binary itself is a prebuilt executable from an Ubuntu PPA rather than compiled from source. This is a legitimate medium concern: a prebuilt binary from a user-controlled (though officially hosted) PPA is being installed as a system executable, and there is no source build to audit. The commented-out OpenSUSE OBS source suggests the maintainer switched hosts. The risk is real but not elevated to high — the sha256 checksum provides integrity for the pinned version, and Launchpad is a well-known hosting platform. This is a classic AUR binary-repackaging pattern with the standard supply-chain caveat of trusting the upstream PPA maintainer.

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:22 source=("gnome-encfs-manager_${pkgver}_amd64.deb::https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/gencfsm/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gnome-encfs-manager/gnome-encfs-manager_1.9~ubuntu23.04.1_amd64.deb")

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 binary .deb from ppa.launchpadcontent.net, which is Canonical's official Launchpad PPA hosting infrastructure — not a random personal server. However, PPAs are user-controlled repositories where the PPA owner (gencfsm) can push arbitrary binaries at any time without independent review. The sha256sum pins a specific version, which mitigates silent substitution of the exact file, but the binary itself is a prebuilt executable from an Ubuntu PPA rather than compiled from source. This is a legitimate medium concern: a prebuilt binary from a user-controlled (though officially hosted) PPA is being installed as a system executable, and there is no source build to audit. The commented-out OpenSUSE OBS source suggests the maintainer switched hosts. The risk is real but not elevated to high — the sha256 checksum provides integrity for the pinned version, and Launchpad is a well-known hosting platform. This is a classic AUR binary-repackaging pattern with the standard supply-chain caveat of trusting the upstream PPA maintainer.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Sergio Schneider <spsf64 at g m a i l . c o m>
    
      2# Contributor: xiota
    
      3# Contributor: Mike Krüger
    
      4
    
      5## useful links
    
      6# https://launchpad.net/gencfsm
    
      7# https://moritzmolch.com/apps/gencfsm.html
    
      8
    
      9pkgname=gnome-encfs-manager-bin
    
      10_pkgname=gnome-encfs-manager
    
      11pkgver=1.9
    
      12pkgrel=5
    
      13pkgdesc="An easy to use manager and mounter for encfs stashes"
    
      14url="https://launchpad.net/gencfsm"
    
      15license=('GPL-2.0-or-later')
    
      16arch=('x86_64')
    
      17
    
      18provides=('gnome-encfs-manager')
    
      19conflicts=('gnome-encfs-manager')
    
      20
    
      21#source=("https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/moritzmolch:/gencfsm/Debian_10/amd64/gnome-encfs-manager_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
    
      22source=("gnome-encfs-manager_${pkgver}_amd64.deb::https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/gencfsm/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gnome-encfs-manager/gnome-encfs-manager_1.9~ubuntu23.04.1_amd64.deb")
    
      23
    
      24
    
      25sha256sums=('05ecbe8269feed0089421c2f15dfdb2e9e84ad58af957930a46e816e45535f59')
    
      26
    
      27prepare() {
    
      28  ar vx "gnome-encfs-manager_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
    
      29  tar -xf data.tar.zst
    
      30}
    
      31package() {
    
      32  depends+=(
    
      33    'encfs'
    
      34    'gtk3'
    
      35    'libappindicator-gtk3'
    
      36    'libgee'
    
      37    'libice'
    
      38    'libsecret'
    
      39    'libsm'
    
      40  )
    
      41
    
      42  install -d "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
    
      43  install -m755 "$srcdir/usr/bin/$_pkgname" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/"
    
      44
    
      45  install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share"
    
      46  install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications"
    
      47  install -Dm644 "$srcdir/usr/share/applications/$_pkgname.desktop" "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/"
    
      48
    
      49  install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/dbus-1/services/"
    
      50  install -Dm644 "$srcdir/usr/share/dbus-1/services/com.libertyzero.gnome-encfs-manager.service" "$pkgdir/usr/share/dbus-1/services/"
    
      51
    
      52  install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/"
    
      53  install -Dm644 "$srcdir/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/com.libertyzero.gnome-encfs-manager.gschema.xml" "$pkgdir/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/"
    
      54
    
      55  install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/gnome-encfs-manager/"
    
      56  mv "$srcdir/usr/share/gnome-encfs-manager"/* "$pkgdir/usr/share/gnome-encfs-manager/"
    
      57
    
      58  install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/"
    
      59  mv "$srcdir/usr/share/icons"/* "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/"
    
      60
    
      61#  install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/locale/"
    
      62#  mv "$srcdir/usr/share/locale"/* "$pkgdir/usr/share/locale/"
    
      63}
    
      64

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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
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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
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2026-09-01 00:11:19	Medium	2
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2026-08-30 00:04:14	Medium	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Medium	2