mediamonkey

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

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt Windows executable installer from the official mediamonkey.com domain and executes it via Wine during the build process. The use of sha256sums=('SKIP') means there is no integrity verification of the downloaded binary, so any compromise or substitution of the file at the source URL would go undetected. Additionally, the installer is run with wine during package() which executes arbitrary Windows code in the build environment. The source host is the official vendor domain, which reduces (but does not eliminate) supply-chain risk. The missing checksum is a genuine concern for a binary that gets executed. This is a legitimate medium-risk pattern: executed prebuilt binary from an official host but with no integrity check. There is also a likely broken aspect: the icon install references '${srcdir}/../mediamonkey.png' which almost certainly does not exist, but this is a minor packaging defect rather than a security issue.

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:10 source=("https://www.mediamonkey.com/MediaMonkey-5_Setup.exe")

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 executable installer from the official mediamonkey.com domain and executes it via Wine during the build process. The use of sha256sums=('SKIP') means there is no integrity verification of the downloaded binary, so any compromise or substitution of the file at the source URL would go undetected. Additionally, the installer is run with wine during package() which executes arbitrary Windows code in the build environment. The source host is the official vendor domain, which reduces (but does not eliminate) supply-chain risk. The missing checksum is a genuine concern for a binary that gets executed. This is a legitimate medium-risk pattern: executed prebuilt binary from an official host but with no integrity check. There is also a likely broken aspect: the icon install references '${srcdir}/../mediamonkey.png' which almost certainly does not exist, but this is a minor packaging defect rather than a security issue.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Your Name <your.email@example.com>
    
      2pkgname=mediamonkey
    
      3pkgver=5.0.5.2695
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="MediaMonkey is a music manager and media jukebox for serious music collectors and iPod users."
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url="https://www.mediamonkey.com/"
    
      8license=('proprietary')
    
      9depends=('wine' 'winetricks')
    
      10source=("https://www.mediamonkey.com/MediaMonkey-5_Setup.exe")
    
      11sha256sums=('SKIP')  # Update with the actual sha256sum of the downloaded installer
    
      12
    
      13prepare() {
    
      14    # Create a directory for Wine's prefix
    
      15    WINEPREFIX="${srcdir}/wineprefix"
    
      16    mkdir -p "$WINEPREFIX"
    
      17    export WINEPREFIX
    
      18
    
      19    # Install necessary dependencies in the Wine prefix
    
      20    winetricks -q dotnet48
    
      21}
    
      22
    
      23package() {
    
      24    cd "$srcdir"
    
      25
    
      26    # Set up Wine environment variables
    
      27    WINEPREFIX="${srcdir}/wineprefix"
    
      28    export WINEPREFIX
    
      29
    
      30    # Install MediaMonkey
    
      31    wine "MediaMonkey-5_Setup.exe" /silent /dir="${pkgdir}/opt/mediamonkey"
    
      32
    
      33    # Create a launcher script
    
      34    install -Dm755 /dev/stdin "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/mediamonkey" << EOF
    
      35#!/bin/bash
    
      36WINEPREFIX="\$HOME/.local/share/wineprefixes/mediamonkey"
    
      37[ ! -e "\$WINEPREFIX" ] && mkdir -p "\$WINEPREFIX"
    
      38wine "/opt/mediamonkey/MediaMonkey.exe" "\$@"
    
      39EOF
    
      40
    
      41    # Install desktop entry
    
      42    install -Dm644 /dev/stdin "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/mediamonkey.desktop" << EOF
    
      43[Desktop Entry]
    
      44Name=MediaMonkey
    
      45Comment=MediaMonkey Music Manager
    
      46Exec=mediamonkey
    
      47Icon=mediamonkey
    
      48Terminal=false
    
      49Type=Application
    
      50Categories=AudioVideo;Player;Audio;
    
      51EOF
    
      52
    
      53    # Install icon (assuming you have an icon file, otherwise skip this part)
    
      54    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/../mediamonkey.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/mediamonkey.png"
    
      55}
    
      56
    
      57# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
    
      58

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2026-08-03 00:08:14	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	MEDIUM	2
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2026-07-19 00:17:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	MEDIUM	2
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2026-07-15 00:09:25	MEDIUM	2