nahimic-linux

MEDIUM

maintainer wearzdk 0 votes scanned 2026-09-13 15:17:02.332379

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt Windows executable from nahimic.helprace.com (a third-party support/helpdesk domain unrelated to the official Nahimic vendor infrastructure) with a fixed checksum but no way to verify authenticity; this binary is extracted and installed as part of the audio runtime, meaning a silently swapped file at that URL would result in an unverified executable being run under Wine on the user's system.

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 'nahimic-apo4-4.14.cab::https://catalog.s.download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/driver/drvs/2025/06/5038101c-bafc-45b6-b338-d086f6877059_8ba41f8fd185d004f674891c937eb6b815acb443.cab'
PKGBUILD:15 'nahimic-runtime-settings.exe::https://nahimic.helprace.com/resources/SdHjE1CwBkqCwL1qTng83XvmSgyUM3WU8bA3F21ZCfca-wMam1lcLqCrQgAIHtE1DyfpwdnFPjQ5DuRdOgpXLg%7E%7E/GenericNahimicRestoreTool.exe'

Low Few votes, recently uploaded zero_votes_recent

Uploaded within the last 14 days with 2 or fewer community votes — little peer review so far.

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 65%): The package downloads a prebuilt Windows executable from nahimic.helprace.com (a third-party support/helpdesk domain unrelated to the official Nahimic vendor infrastructure) with a fixed checksum but no way to verify authenticity; this binary is extracted and installed as part of the audio runtime, meaning a silently swapped file at that URL would result in an unverified executable being run under Wine on the user's system.

PKGBUILD

2 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: wearzdk <hi@wearzdk.me>
    
      2pkgname=nahimic-linux
    
      3pkgver=0.1.0
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc='Nahimic speaker effects and equalizer for supported Linux laptops'
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url='https://github.com/wearzdk/nahimic-linux'
    
      8license=('MIT' 'LicenseRef-Nahimic')
    
      9depends=('python' 'pyside6' 'wine' 'pipewire' 'pipewire-pulse' 'libpulse' 'systemd' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'bash' 'glibc')
    
      10makedepends=('mingw-w64-gcc' 'pkgconf' 'cabextract' 'git')
    
      11install=nahimic-linux.install
    
      12options=('!strip' '!debug')
    
      13source=("$pkgname::git+$url#tag=v$pkgver"
    
      14        'nahimic-apo4-4.14.cab::https://catalog.s.download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/driver/drvs/2025/06/5038101c-bafc-45b6-b338-d086f6877059_8ba41f8fd185d004f674891c937eb6b815acb443.cab'
    
      15        'nahimic-runtime-settings.exe::https://nahimic.helprace.com/resources/SdHjE1CwBkqCwL1qTng83XvmSgyUM3WU8bA3F21ZCfca-wMam1lcLqCrQgAIHtE1DyfpwdnFPjQ5DuRdOgpXLg%7E%7E/GenericNahimicRestoreTool.exe'
    
      16        'nahimic-linux.install')
    
      17noextract=('nahimic-apo4-4.14.cab' 'nahimic-runtime-settings.exe')
    
      18sha256sums=('SKIP'
    
      19            'f3b1aae44826f85045cff8e085367dd8b48ffb3510e074adf552cc8eafbf8bde'
    
      20            '5f9c4d9eda54b7f946e331740354f01c043f25408d7053b4c23327c1b5b0a74a'
    
      21            'f8206f52fd53c647e8ab1707545d5d977a2dd1495ba76b1f24abdb4faf35ce6e')
    
      22
    
      23prepare() {
    
      24    python "$srcdir/$pkgname/packaging/extract_runtime.py" \
    
      25        "$srcdir/nahimic-apo4-4.14.cab" "$srcdir/nahimic-runtime-settings.exe" "$srcdir/runtime"
    
      26}
    
      27build() {
    
      28    make -C "$srcdir/$pkgname"
    
      29    strip --strip-unneeded "$srcdir/$pkgname/bin/pulse_state"
    
      30}
    
      31package() {
    
      32    make -C "$srcdir/$pkgname" DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
    
      33    install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/nahimic-linux"
    
      34    cp -r "$srcdir/runtime/vendor" "$srcdir/runtime/factory" "$pkgdir/usr/share/nahimic-linux/"
    
      35}
    
      36

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-13 15:17:02	Medium	3
2026-09-13 15:14:52	Medium	3