goterminal

MEDIUM

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

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary tarball from sophiware.com (a third-party commercial host, not a well-known official distribution channel like GitHub releases or a major vendor CDN) and installs it directly into /opt without stripping or any integrity verification beyond an MD5 checksum (which is cryptographically weak). The binary is executed at runtime as a terminal emulator with full user privileges. The noextract+manual tar pattern is unusual but not inherently malicious. The core concern is a prebuilt closed-source binary from a personal/small-company host verified only by MD5 — a genuine supply-chain risk if the host is compromised or the binary is swapped, though there is no evidence of active malice. This fits the medium category: executed binary from an unofficial/personal host.

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=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::http://products.sophiware.com/download/goterminal/linux-all"

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 binary tarball from sophiware.com (a third-party commercial host, not a well-known official distribution channel like GitHub releases or a major vendor CDN) and installs it directly into /opt without stripping or any integrity verification beyond an MD5 checksum (which is cryptographically weak). The binary is executed at runtime as a terminal emulator with full user privileges. The noextract+manual tar pattern is unusual but not inherently malicious. The core concern is a prebuilt closed-source binary from a personal/small-company host verified only by MD5 — a genuine supply-chain risk if the host is compromised or the binary is swapped, though there is no evidence of active malice. This fits the medium category: executed binary from an unofficial/personal host.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Valerio Pizzi (pival81) <pival81@yahoo.com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=goterminal
    
      4pkgver=0.0.5
    
      5pkgrel=2
    
      6pkgdesc="Elegant and efficient Linux terminal"
    
      7arch=("x86_64" "i386")
    
      8url="http://rungoterminal.com"
    
      9license=('APSL 2.0')
    
      10options=(!strip)
    
      11noextract=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz")
    
      12source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::http://products.sophiware.com/download/goterminal/linux-all"
    
      13	"sophiware-$pkgname.desktop")
    
      14md5sums=('74acaa13daa54c1185d255bbc5422758'
    
      15	 'dd96df7c8bbc48398b1d4d8ffd856d17')
    
      16
    
      17prepare() {
    
      18	cd $srcdir
    
      19	mkdir goterminal
    
      20	tar -zxvf $pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz -C goterminal
    
      21}
    
      22
    
      23package() {
    
      24	mkdir -p $pkgdir/{opt,usr/{share/applications,local/bin}}
    
      25	mv $srcdir/$pkgname $pkgdir/opt/$pkgname
    
      26	ln -s /opt/$pkgname/$pkgname $pkgdir/usr/local/bin/$pkgname
    
      27	install -m644 $srcdir/sophiware-$pkgname.desktop $pkgdir/usr/share/applications
    
      28} 
    
      29
    
      30

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