jnetmap

maintainer schinfo · 7 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
MEDIUM
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Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt .deb binary from rakudave.synology.me, which is a personal Synology NAS host rather than an official project release platform (GitHub releases, SourceForge, etc.). The binary is extracted and installed directly to /opt, then symlinked into /usr/bin — meaning arbitrary executable code from this personal host runs on the user's system. While a sha256sum is present (providing integrity against accidental corruption), it offers no protection if the host owner replaces the file with a new binary at the same URL. The project's official URL is rakudave.ch/jnetmap, and this Synology subdomain appears to be the maintainer's personal server acting as a download mirror, not a recognized release infrastructure. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: a prebuilt Java application binary from a non-standard personal host that gets executed directly. The risk is real but not clearly malicious, fitting the medium classification.

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:18 source=(https://rakudave.synology.me/jnetmap/${pkgname}-${_pkgver}-${subver}_all.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 .deb binary from rakudave.synology.me, which is a personal Synology NAS host rather than an official project release platform (GitHub releases, SourceForge, etc.). The binary is extracted and installed directly to /opt, then symlinked into /usr/bin — meaning arbitrary executable code from this personal host runs on the user's system. While a sha256sum is present (providing integrity against accidental corruption), it offers no protection if the host owner replaces the file with a new binary at the same URL. The project's official URL is rakudave.ch/jnetmap, and this Synology subdomain appears to be the maintainer's personal server acting as a download mirror, not a recognized release infrastructure. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: a prebuilt Java application binary from a non-standard personal host that gets executed directly. The risk is real but not clearly malicious, fitting the medium classification.

PKGBUILD

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1# Maintainer: Helmut Stult <hst[at]e-mail[dot]de>
2# Contributor: Jaroslav Lichtblau <dragonlord@aur.archlinux.org>
3# Contributor: Christopher Rogers <slaxemulator@gmail.com>
4
5pkgname=jnetmap
6_pkgname=jNetMap
7pkgver=0.5.6.739
8_pkgver=0.5.6
9subver=739
10pkgrel=1
11pkgdesc="Graphical network monitoring and documentation tool"
12arch=('any')
13url="http://rakudave.ch/jnetmap"
14license=('GPL3')
15depends=('java-runtime')
16provide=('jnetmap')
17conflicts=('jnetmap')
18source=(https://rakudave.synology.me/jnetmap/${pkgname}-${_pkgver}-${subver}_all.deb)
19sha256sums=('6a752e9e6971ce3c7553952f115c289c079a2d77d8e48c36741e8e2b4dd71fff')
20
21package() {
22 bsdtar -xf "${srcdir}/data.tar.zst" -C "${pkgdir}/"
23 install -dm755 $pkgdir/usr/bin
24 ln -s /opt/$_pkgname/jnetmap "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/jNetMap"
25}
26

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