netease-popo

MEDIUM

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

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from popo.gdl.netease.com, which is a Netease CDN subdomain (gdl = likely 'global download'). This is the official vendor's own distribution host for their Linux client, not a personal or third-party mirror. However, the package still installs an unverified prebuilt binary blob directly from a vendor CDN without any reproducibility guarantees, and the sha512sums provided give some integrity assurance. The main concern is that the URL is not versioned in a stable/reproducible way (the filename contains a timestamp: 1691735489662), meaning the file could be silently replaced. The package also executes a bundled shell script (netease-popo.sh) from source=() with a checksum. Overall this is a standard 'repackage vendor binary deb' pattern common in AUR, with checksums present. The risk is real but typical for this class of package — not clearly malicious, but a supply-chain concern if the CDN host is compromised or the file is rotated. Medium is appropriate.

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:11 source_x86_64=("https://popo.gdl.netease.com/file/popolinux/POPO-setup_prod_1691735489662.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 PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from popo.gdl.netease.com, which is a Netease CDN subdomain (gdl = likely 'global download'). This is the official vendor's own distribution host for their Linux client, not a personal or third-party mirror. However, the package still installs an unverified prebuilt binary blob directly from a vendor CDN without any reproducibility guarantees, and the sha512sums provided give some integrity assurance. The main concern is that the URL is not versioned in a stable/reproducible way (the filename contains a timestamp: 1691735489662), meaning the file could be silently replaced. The package also executes a bundled shell script (netease-popo.sh) from source=() with a checksum. Overall this is a standard 'repackage vendor binary deb' pattern common in AUR, with checksums present. The risk is real but typical for this class of package — not clearly malicious, but a supply-chain concern if the CDN host is compromised or the file is rotated. Medium is appropriate.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: GouGou <xingru97@gmail.com>
    
      2pkgname=netease-popo
    
      3pkgver=3.71.1.13000
    
      4pkgrel=2
    
      5pkgdesc="Netease POPO for linux"
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url="https://www.netease.com"
    
      8license=('LicenseRef-popo')
    
      9depends=('twolame' 'numactl')
    
      10options=('!strip' '!emptydirs')
    
      11source_x86_64=("https://popo.gdl.netease.com/file/popolinux/POPO-setup_prod_1691735489662.deb")
    
      12source=("${pkgname}.sh")
    
      13sha512sums=('293c5e8635df28104a43c7a1a4129c98e263d5c2ce845321d7b5f4cb0da91cd65f3e22d63369169a56ef645044056dcbbad0e5ddd0da512f048d21665c92dcdc')
    
      14sha512sums_x86_64=('77cf0da179be048185a1d67d7ac2954139cf2ab692f72c7b0161f26e182ce24e74019dcc39218767349cf653220c1958ee20ce0431308b67e6967eed6b24bd11')
    
      15package() {
    
      16	echo ":: Extracting data.tar.xz..."
    
      17	tar -xf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}"
    
      18	echo ":: Install license file..."
    
      19	install -D -m644 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/popo/copyright" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
    
      20	echo ":: Creating Launcher..."
    
      21	install -D -m644 "${pkgdir}/opt/apps/popo/entries/applications/popo.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/popo.desktop"
    
      22	echo ":: Install Launcher file..."
    
      23	install -D -m755 "${pkgname}.sh" "${pkgdir}/opt/apps/popo/files/netease-popo.sh"
    
      24	sed -i "s/Elevator\.sh/netease-popo\.sh/g" ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/popo.desktop
    
      25	echo ":: Fixing conflicting package-bundled libstdc++..."
    
      26	# Temporary Solution: There is a bundled libc .so file in package conflicting with system's one. Remove it.
    
      27	rm -vf ${pkgdir}/opt/apps/popo/files/3.71.1.13000/libstdc++*
    
      28}
    
      29

Scan history

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