notedeck-bin

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

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads prebuilt binary .deb packages from damus.io (the official project website, matching the upstream URL on GitHub at github.com/damus-io/notedeck) and installs the extracted binaries directly. While damus.io is the official vendor host for this project, the use of 'SKIP' for checksums means there is no integrity verification — any compromise or substitution of the binary at the source URL would go undetected. This is a real supply-chain concern: executed binaries with no checksum verification. The host is the official vendor (not a random personal host), which reduces but does not eliminate the risk. This warrants a medium rating rather than high, as there is no evidence of malice, but the missing checksums on executed binaries represent a genuine packaging security gap.

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:12 source_x86_64=("https://damus.io/notedeck/dl/v${pkgver}/notedeck_v${pkgver}-x64.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 prebuilt binary .deb packages from damus.io (the official project website, matching the upstream URL on GitHub at github.com/damus-io/notedeck) and installs the extracted binaries directly. While damus.io is the official vendor host for this project, the use of 'SKIP' for checksums means there is no integrity verification — any compromise or substitution of the binary at the source URL would go undetected. This is a real supply-chain concern: executed binaries with no checksum verification. The host is the official vendor (not a random personal host), which reduces but does not eliminate the risk. This warrants a medium rating rather than high, as there is no evidence of malice, but the missing checksums on executed binaries represent a genuine packaging security gap.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Sebastian Korotkiewicz <skorotkiewicz@gmail.com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=notedeck-bin
    
      4pkgver=0.4.0
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="The nostr browser"
    
      7arch=('x86_64' 'aarch64')
    
      8url="https://github.com/damus-io/notedeck" # https://damus.io/notedeck/install/
    
      9license=('GPL-3')
    
      10depends=('glibc')
    
      11options=(!strip)
    
      12source_x86_64=("https://damus.io/notedeck/dl/v${pkgver}/notedeck_v${pkgver}-x64.deb")
    
      13source_aarch64=("https://damus.io/notedeck/dl/v${pkgver}/notedeck_v${pkgver}-arm64.deb")
    
      14sha256sums_x86_64=('SKIP')
    
      15sha256sums_aarch64=('SKIP')
    
      16
    
      17package() {
    
      18    # Create package directory if it doesn't exist
    
      19    mkdir -p "$pkgdir"
    
      20
    
      21    # Extract the .deb archive
    
      22    cd "$srcdir"
    
      23    # ar x "../notedeck_v${pkgver}-x64.deb"
    
      24    ar x "${srcdir}/notedeck_v${pkgver}-"*".deb"
    
      25
    
      26    # Extract data archive to the package directory
    
      27    tar -xf data.tar.xz -C "$pkgdir"
    
      28
    
      29    # Clean up
    
      30    rm -f control.tar.xz data.tar.xz debian-binary
    
      31
    
      32    # Create a menu entry if desktop files exist but weren't included
    
      33    if [ -f "$pkgdir/usr/bin/notedeck" ] && [ ! -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications" ]; then
    
      34        mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications"
    
      35        cat > "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/notedeck.desktop" << EOF
    
      36[Desktop Entry]
    
      37Name=Notedeck
    
      38GenericName=The nostr browser
    
      39Exec=notedeck
    
      40Terminal=false
    
      41Type=Application
    
      42Categories=Utility;
    
      43EOF
    
      44    fi
    
      45}
    
      46

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