k-meleon-bin-wine

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

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt Windows binary (7z archive) from 'o.rthost.win', which is not the official K-Meleon distribution host (kmeleonbrowser.org or SourceForge). The official K-Meleon releases are hosted on SourceForge; this appears to be a personal/unofficial mirror. The archive is extracted and installed as an executable Windows binary that runs under Wine. While a SHA256 checksum is present, it only verifies the file hasn't changed since the PKGBUILD was written — it doesn't establish trust in the host. If the file at that URL were replaced, users would get a different checksum and the build would fail, but the host itself is not authoritative. The second source (icon from a.fsdn.com/allura) is from SourceForge's CDN and is fine. The core concern is a prebuilt executable binary from a non-official personal host, which is a genuine medium supply-chain risk. The wine_script and desktop_script are straightforward and contain no obfuscation or malicious logic.

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:14 source=("https://o.rthost.win/kmeleon/KM${pkgver}-Goanna-${timecode}.7z" "https://a.fsdn.com/allura/p/kmeleon/icon?1499965860")
PKGBUILD:14 source=("https://o.rthost.win/kmeleon/KM${pkgver}-Goanna-${timecode}.7z" "https://a.fsdn.com/allura/p/kmeleon/icon?1499965860")

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 Windows binary (7z archive) from 'o.rthost.win', which is not the official K-Meleon distribution host (kmeleonbrowser.org or SourceForge). The official K-Meleon releases are hosted on SourceForge; this appears to be a personal/unofficial mirror. The archive is extracted and installed as an executable Windows binary that runs under Wine. While a SHA256 checksum is present, it only verifies the file hasn't changed since the PKGBUILD was written — it doesn't establish trust in the host. If the file at that URL were replaced, users would get a different checksum and the build would fail, but the host itself is not authoritative. The second source (icon from a.fsdn.com/allura) is from SourceForge's CDN and is fine. The core concern is a prebuilt executable binary from a non-official personal host, which is a genuine medium supply-chain risk. The wine_script and desktop_script are straightforward and contain no obfuscation or malicious logic.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1#Maintainer: oshaboy <noamgilor{at}protonmail{dot}com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=k-meleon-bin-wine
    
      4pkgver=76.4
    
      5timecode=20210213
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc="A Firefox Based Browser (runs through wine)"
    
      8arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
    
      9url="http://kmeleonbrowser.org/"
    
      10license=('GPL')
    
      11depends=(wine)
    
      12optdepends=(wine-mono wine_gecko)
    
      13makedepends=(p7zip)
    
      14source=("https://o.rthost.win/kmeleon/KM${pkgver}-Goanna-${timecode}.7z" "https://a.fsdn.com/allura/p/kmeleon/icon?1499965860")
    
      15sha256sums=('4be6d342a9a132f2b141d1bb5d85696a1b0aebbc48f4bd36f47b3accb35bec4a' '3d728db875f17ac7387b6dcdc5f39a10610170990076c67b866c7cae287fb960')
    
      16prepare() {
    
      17	7z x -o"${srcdir}/k-meleon.d" KM${pkgver}-Goanna-${timecode}.7z
    
      18	echo -e ${wine_script} >| ${srcdir}/k-meleon
    
      19	echo -e ${desktop_script} >| ${srcdir}/k-meleon.desktop
    
      20	chmod 755 ${srcdir}/k-meleon
    
      21	mv "${srcdir}/icon?1499965860" "${srcdir}/kmeleon.png"
    
      22	
    
      23}
    
      24wine_script='
    
      25 if [ ! -d ${HOME}/.kmeleon ] ; then \n
    
      26  cp -r /opt/k-meleon ${HOME}/.kmeleon \n
    
      27  chown -R $(whoami):$(whoami) ${HOME}/.kmeleon \n
    
      28 fi \n
    
      29 wine ${HOME}/.kmeleon/k-meleon.exe \n
    
      30'
    
      31desktop_script='
    
      32	[Desktop Entry] \n
    
      33	Name=K-Meleon (wine) \n
    
      34	Exec=/usr/bin/k-meleon \n
    
      35	Icon=kmeleon.png \n
    
      36	Comment="A Firefox Based Browser (runs through wine)" \n
    
      37	Type=Application \n
    
      38	Terminal=false \n
    
      39	Category=Network \n
    
      40	
    
      41	
    
      42	
    
      43'
    
      44package(){
    
      45	mkdir "${pkgdir}/opt" 
    
      46	cp -r ${srcdir}/k-meleon.d "${pkgdir}/opt/k-meleon"
    
      47	find "${pkgdir}/opt/k-meleon" -type d | xargs chmod 755 
    
      48	install -D "${srcdir}/k-meleon" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/k-meleon"
    
      49	
    
      50	#desktop link
    
      51	install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/kmeleon.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps/kmeleon.png"
    
      52	install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/k-meleon.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/k-meleon.desktop"
    
      53	
    
      54	
    
      55}
    
      56

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