nocash2k6

MEDIUM

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

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Why flagged

problemkaputt.de is Martin Korth's well-known personal site, the canonical upstream for all no$xxx emulators/debuggers (no$gba, no$sns, no$2k6, etc.). This is effectively the official vendor host. However, the package downloads a prebuilt Windows PE binary (run under Wine) with only an md5sum for integrity — MD5 is weak but provides some verification. The wrapper script, desktop file, and icon are sourced locally (SKIP checksums, which is sloppy but not dangerous for non-executed data files). The real concern is that a prebuilt closed-source binary from a personal host is executed via Wine with no stronger hash (SHA256/SHA512) and no signature verification. This is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain concern: if problemkaputt.de were compromised, users would silently receive a malicious binary. The host is legitimate/well-known, which lowers the probability of compromise, but the pattern (prebuilt binary, weak hash, personal host) still warrants medium rather than clean.

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://problemkaputt.de/no\$2k6-w.zip

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): problemkaputt.de is Martin Korth's well-known personal site, the canonical upstream for all no$xxx emulators/debuggers (no$gba, no$sns, no$2k6, etc.). This is effectively the official vendor host. However, the package downloads a prebuilt Windows PE binary (run under Wine) with only an md5sum for integrity — MD5 is weak but provides some verification. The wrapper script, desktop file, and icon are sourced locally (SKIP checksums, which is sloppy but not dangerous for non-executed data files). The real concern is that a prebuilt closed-source binary from a personal host is executed via Wine with no stronger hash (SHA256/SHA512) and no signature verification. This is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain concern: if problemkaputt.de were compromised, users would silently receive a malicious binary. The host is legitimate/well-known, which lowers the probability of compromise, but the pattern (prebuilt binary, weak hash, personal host) still warrants medium rather than clean.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Sterophonick
    
      2pkgname=nocash2k6
    
      3_pkgname='nocash2k6'
    
      4pkgver=1.1
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc='Atai 2600 Debugger'
    
      7arch=(x86_64 i686)
    
      8depends=('wine' 'winetricks')
    
      9makedepends=('p7zip')
    
      10source=(https://problemkaputt.de/no\$2k6-w.zip
    
      11        nocash2k6
    
      12        nocash2k6.desktop
    
      13        nocash2k6.png)
    
      14md5sums=('7876291b6f99ec3ea1fad2bf6a1ddc4b'
    
      15         'SKIP'
    
      16         'SKIP'
    
      17         'SKIP')
    
      18noextract=(no\$2k6-w.zip)
    
      19
    
      20prepare() {
    
      21  cd $srcdir
    
      22  mkdir -p nocash
    
      23  7z x no\$2k6-w.zip -aou -onocash
    
      24}
    
      25
    
      26package() {
    
      27  install -Dm755 nocash2k6 $pkgdir/usr/bin/nocash2k6
    
      28  install -Dm644 nocash2k6.desktop $pkgdir/usr/share/applications/nocash2k6.desktop
    
      29  install -Dm644 nocash2k6.png $pkgdir/usr/share/pixmaps/nocash2k6.png
    
      30
    
      31  mkdir -p $pkgdir/usr/share/nocash2k6
    
      32
    
      33  cp -r $srcdir/nocash/* $pkgdir/usr/share/nocash2k6
    
      34  chmod -R 777 $pkgdir/usr/share/nocash2k6
    
      35}
    
      36

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