idrive-desktop-bin

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

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt Electron/binary .deb from idrivedownloads.com (IDrive's own CDN/download host) with sha256sums=('SKIP'), meaning no integrity verification is performed. The binary is then unpacked and installed directly, including setting a setuid-root chrome-sandbox binary (chmod 4755). The source is the official vendor distribution channel, not a personal or unofficial host, which reduces risk compared to a random third-party mirror. However, the complete absence of a checksum means any MITM or server-side substitution would go undetected. The 'SKIP' is explained by the upstream serving an unversioned 'latest' URL, which is a real supply-chain concern: there is no way to verify the downloaded binary matches any known-good version. This is a genuine medium-severity concern — executed proprietary binary from a vendor host with no integrity check — but not high because the host is the legitimate vendor's download server and there is no evidence of malice or obfuscation.

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:30 source=("IDriveForLinux.deb::https://www.idrivedownloads.com/downloads/linux/linux-desktop/IDriveForLinux.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 PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt Electron/binary .deb from idrivedownloads.com (IDrive's own CDN/download host) with sha256sums=('SKIP'), meaning no integrity verification is performed. The binary is then unpacked and installed directly, including setting a setuid-root chrome-sandbox binary (chmod 4755). The source is the official vendor distribution channel, not a personal or unofficial host, which reduces risk compared to a random third-party mirror. However, the complete absence of a checksum means any MITM or server-side substitution would go undetected. The 'SKIP' is explained by the upstream serving an unversioned 'latest' URL, which is a real supply-chain concern: there is no way to verify the downloaded binary matches any known-good version. This is a genuine medium-severity concern — executed proprietary binary from a vendor host with no integrity check — but not high because the host is the legitimate vendor's download server and there is no evidence of malice or obfuscation.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Andy <this.is.apb@gmail.com>
    
      2pkgname=idrive-desktop-bin
    
      3pkgver=1.7.0
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="IDrive for Linux - official Electron desktop GUI for cloud backup, restore and sync"
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url="https://www.idrive.com/online-backup-download"
    
      8license=('LicenseRef-IDrive')
    
      9# Translated from the .deb Depends. popt is needed by the idevsutil backup engine
    
      10# the app fetches on first run. gtk3/libnotify/etc. are pulled via the GUI libs.
    
      11# valkey is NOT here: redis is used only by the Cloud Sync daemon (sync-daemon,
    
      12# pkg "clouddrive"), so backup/restore and the GUI work without it -> optdepend.
    
      13depends=('nss' 'curl' 'sqlite' 'cronie' 'glib2' 'gtk3' 'xdotool' 'rsync' 'attr'
    
      14         'popt' 'python' 'python-gobject' 'python-watchdog' 'python-psutil'
    
      15         'python-dbus')
    
      16optdepends=('valkey: Cloud Sync / Cloud Drive real-time folder sync (redis-compatible server)'
    
      17            'libappindicator-gtk3: system tray icon'
    
      18            'nautilus: file manager integration'
    
      19            'nautilus-python: cloud-sync overlay icons in Nautilus'
    
      20            'nemo-python: cloud-sync overlay icons in Nemo'
    
      21            'python-caja: cloud-sync overlay icons in Caja')
    
      22# Bundles the same /opt/IDriveForLinux backup engine as idrive-bin; only one of
    
      23# the two can manage that tree.
    
      24provides=('idrive')
    
      25conflicts=('idrive' 'idrive-bin')
    
      26options=('!strip')
    
      27install="$pkgname.install"
    
      28# Upstream serves a single, unversioned "latest" .deb, so the checksum cannot be
    
      29# pinned; pkgver() reads the real version from the deb's control file.
    
      30source=("IDriveForLinux.deb::https://www.idrivedownloads.com/downloads/linux/linux-desktop/IDriveForLinux.deb")
    
      31sha256sums=('SKIP')
    
      32
    
      33pkgver() {
    
      34	cd "$srcdir"
    
      35	# deb is an ar archive; pull the control member and read its Version field.
    
      36	bsdtar -xOf IDriveForLinux.deb control.tar.gz | bsdtar -xOf - \
    
      37		| grep -m1 '^Version:' | awk '{print $2}'
    
      38}
    
      39
    
      40package() {
    
      41	cd "$srcdir"
    
      42
    
      43	# Unpack the deb (ar: debian-binary, control.tar.gz, data.tar.xz), then lay
    
      44	# its payload (opt/ + usr/share) straight into the package.
    
      45	bsdtar -xf IDriveForLinux.deb
    
      46	bsdtar -xf data.tar.xz -C "$pkgdir"
    
      47
    
      48	# The Electron sandbox helper must be setuid root.
    
      49	chmod 4755 "$pkgdir/opt/IDriveForLinux/chrome-sandbox"
    
      50
    
      51	# Launcher on PATH (the .desktop already points at the absolute path).
    
      52	install -d "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
    
      53	ln -s /opt/IDriveForLinux/idriveforlinux "$pkgdir/usr/bin/idriveforlinux"
    
      54
    
      55	# License: pointer to the canonical terms plus the bundled Electron license.
    
      56	install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname"
    
      57	cat > "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE" <<-'EOF'
    
      58		IDrive for Linux is proprietary software, Copyright IDrive Inc.
    
      59
    
      60		Use is governed by the IDrive Terms of Service:
    
      61		    https://www.idrive.com/terms-and-conditions
    
      62
    
      63		This package redistributes the unmodified official .deb payload from
    
      64		https://www.idrive.com/online-backup-download for convenience.
    
      65	EOF
    
      66	install -m644 "$pkgdir/opt/IDriveForLinux/LICENSE.electron.txt" \
    
      67		"$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE.electron.txt"
    
      68}
    
      69

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