noesis-bin

maintainer Vorschreibung · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged This package downloads a prebuilt Windows executable (Noesis.exe) from richwhitehouse.com, which is the personal/project site of the software's author Rich Whitehouse — a well-known game modding tool developer. The URL matches the official project page listed in the 'url' field. However, it is still a personal host rather than a major distribution platform, and the package installs a prebuilt binary (run via Wine) whose integrity relies entirely on that host not being compromised. The sha512sum is provided (though it appears to be 127 hex chars rather than 128, which may indicate a truncation error in the PKGBUILD — worth noting but not necessarily malicious). The overall pattern is a legitimate proprietary tool distributed from its author's own server, which is common for niche Windows utilities packaged for AUR via Wine. This is a genuine medium-risk supply-chain concern (unofficial personal host, prebuilt binary executed at runtime) but not evidence of malicious intent.

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:15 source=("https://www.richwhitehouse.com/filemirror/noesisv4473.zip" "noesis.sh")

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): This package downloads a prebuilt Windows executable (Noesis.exe) from richwhitehouse.com, which is the personal/project site of the software's author Rich Whitehouse — a well-known game modding tool developer. The URL matches the official project page listed in the 'url' field. However, it is still a personal host rather than a major distribution platform, and the package installs a prebuilt binary (run via Wine) whose integrity relies entirely on that host not being compromised. The sha512sum is provided (though it appears to be 127 hex chars rather than 128, which may indicate a truncation error in the PKGBUILD — worth noting but not necessarily malicious). The overall pattern is a legitimate proprietary tool distributed from its author's own server, which is common for niche Windows utilities packaged for AUR via Wine. This is a genuine medium-risk supply-chain concern (unofficial personal host, prebuilt binary executed at runtime) but not evidence of malicious intent.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Vorschreibung <vorschreibung@gmail.com>
    
      2# shellcheck disable=SC2034,SC2164,SC2154
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=noesis-bin
    
      5_pkgname=noesis
    
      6pkgver=4.473
    
      7pkgrel=2
    
      8pkgdesc="Noesis is a tool for previewing and converting between hundreds of model, image, and animation formats."
    
      9arch=('x86_64')
    
      10url="https://richwhitehouse.com/index.php?content=inc_projects.php&showproject=91"
    
      11license=('proprietary')
    
      12depends=(wine)
    
      13provides=(noesis)
    
      14
    
      15source=("https://www.richwhitehouse.com/filemirror/noesisv4473.zip" "noesis.sh")
    
      16sha512sums=('8bb13699eae2bf1c3f0c3b71a00cb9daed6ad13f4df7089bed6541ffb5af50b817945a637ffb42f474129e6164589700c1790aafa03eaf0d5a3ef5ad50d616b0' 'SKIP')
    
      17
    
      18package() {
    
      19    cd "${srcdir}"
    
      20
    
      21    mkdir -p   "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkgname}/"
    
      22    cp -RL "." "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkgname}/"
    
      23    rm "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkgname}/"{Noesis.exe,noesis*zip}
    
      24
    
      25    mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      26    ln -s "/opt/noesis/noesis.sh" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/noesis"
    
      27}
    
      28
    
      29# vim:set ft=sh syn=sh ts=4 sw=4 et:
    
      30

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