lines

MEDIUM

maintainer orphaned 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

This PKGBUILD downloads and installs a prebuilt binary (Electron-based IDE) directly from the vendor's own website (creatixbih.com), which is the official upstream host for the 'Lines' code editor. The binary is installed to /opt and symlinked into /usr/bin, meaning it executes with user privileges. The concern is that creatixbih.com is a small, relatively obscure vendor site rather than a well-known release platform (GitHub releases, official distro mirrors, etc.), and the zip is fetched without version pinning in the URL (lines_linux_x64.zip could be silently replaced). However, a sha256sum is present, which mitigates silent replacement for the specific version pinned. The real residual risk is that this is an opaque prebuilt binary from a low-profile vendor with no source code available for audit, and the URL does not embed the version number, making future updates potentially ambiguous. This is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain concern: executed binary from an unofficial/personal vendor host, partially mitigated by the checksum.

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=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.zip::https://www.creatixbih.com/dl/files/lines_linux_x64.zip")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): This PKGBUILD downloads and installs a prebuilt binary (Electron-based IDE) directly from the vendor's own website (creatixbih.com), which is the official upstream host for the 'Lines' code editor. The binary is installed to /opt and symlinked into /usr/bin, meaning it executes with user privileges. The concern is that creatixbih.com is a small, relatively obscure vendor site rather than a well-known release platform (GitHub releases, official distro mirrors, etc.), and the zip is fetched without version pinning in the URL (lines_linux_x64.zip could be silently replaced). However, a sha256sum is present, which mitigates silent replacement for the specific version pinned. The real residual risk is that this is an opaque prebuilt binary from a low-profile vendor with no source code available for audit, and the URL does not embed the version number, making future updates potentially ambiguous. This is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain concern: executed binary from an unofficial/personal vendor host, partially mitigated by the checksum.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Luis Martinez <luis dot martinez at tuta dot io>
    
      2# Contributor:  Dimitris Kiziridis <ragouel at outlook dot com>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=lines
    
      5pkgver=5.2
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc='A modern and minimalist IDE supporting over 150 programming languages'
    
      8arch=('x86_64')
    
      9url="https://www.creatixbih.com/lines"
    
      10license=('custom:freeware')
    
      11provides=('lines-code-editor')
    
      12depends=('gtk3' 'libxss' 'nss')
    
      13makedepends=('gendesk')
    
      14source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.zip::https://www.creatixbih.com/dl/files/lines_linux_x64.zip")
    
      15sha256sums=('e12963bbc1c7ee1d99c6d463ae55572978b7d81abdbcef056eeb8af98c2bef0e')
    
      16
    
      17package() {
    
      18  install -d "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgname/" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/"
    
      19  cp -a --no-preserve=ownership Lines/* "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgname/"
    
      20  ln -s /opt/lines/lines "$pkgdir/usr/bin/lines"
    
      21  install -Dm 644 "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgname/app/license.txt" -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/"
    
      22  install -Dm 644 "$pkgdir/opt/lines/app/res/lines.png" -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/"
    
      23  gendesk -f -n --pkgname "$pkgname" \
    
      24          --pkgdesc "$pkgdesc" \
    
      25          --name "Lines" \
    
      26          --genericname "Text Editor" \
    
      27          --comment "$pkgname" \
    
      28          --exec "$pkgname" \
    
      29          --categories "Utility;Development;IDE"
    
      30  install -Dm 644 "$pkgname.desktop" -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/"
    
      31}
    
      32
    
      33# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
    
      34

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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