parajve

maintainer produnis · 2 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary tarball (ParaJVE_0.7.0_linux.tgz) from dlf.emu-land.net, which is a third-party emulation archive site rather than the official project host (vectrex.fr). The tarball contains native shared libraries (libs/setup/*32* and *64* references) that are installed and executed at runtime. The official project URL is vectrex.fr/ParaJVE/ but the source is fetched from a different domain entirely. While emu-land.net is a known emulation archive and not obviously malicious, it is not the canonical upstream release host, creating a genuine supply-chain concern: if that host is compromised or serves a modified binary, users would execute arbitrary native code. The integrity check uses only MD5 (weak, collision-prone) rather than SHA-256 or b2. The combination of a non-official host, prebuilt native binaries/libraries, and weak checksums constitutes a real medium-severity supply-chain risk. The 'any' architecture claim is also suspicious given arch-specific library selection. No piracy or broken flags apply.

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:13 source=('https://dlf.emu-land.net/vert/ParaJVE_0.7.0_linux.tgz'
PKGBUILD:14 'http://dl.openhandhelds.org/dingoo/screenshots/splash.png'

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 tarball (ParaJVE_0.7.0_linux.tgz) from dlf.emu-land.net, which is a third-party emulation archive site rather than the official project host (vectrex.fr). The tarball contains native shared libraries (libs/setup/*32* and *64* references) that are installed and executed at runtime. The official project URL is vectrex.fr/ParaJVE/ but the source is fetched from a different domain entirely. While emu-land.net is a known emulation archive and not obviously malicious, it is not the canonical upstream release host, creating a genuine supply-chain concern: if that host is compromised or serves a modified binary, users would execute arbitrary native code. The integrity check uses only MD5 (weak, collision-prone) rather than SHA-256 or b2. The combination of a non-official host, prebuilt native binaries/libraries, and weak checksums constitutes a real medium-severity supply-chain risk. The 'any' architecture claim is also suspicious given arch-specific library selection. No piracy or broken flags apply.

PKGBUILD

2 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: produnis <joe dot slam at produnis dot de>
    
      2# Contributor: archtux <antonio dot arias99999 at gmail dot com>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=parajve
    
      5pkgver=0.7.0
    
      6pkgrel=2
    
      7pkgdesc="Advanced emulator for the GCE Vectrex game console(1982) with built-in game ROMS."
    
      8arch=('any')
    
      9url="http://www.vectrex.fr/ParaJVE/"
    
      10license=('custom')
    
      11depends=('java-runtime')
    
      12install=$pkgname.install
    
      13source=('https://dlf.emu-land.net/vert/ParaJVE_0.7.0_linux.tgz'
    
      14        'http://dl.openhandhelds.org/dingoo/screenshots/splash.png'
    
      15        LICENSE
    
      16        $pkgname
    
      17        $pkgname.desktop)
    
      18md5sums=('146dcf4bd42865d5fb930dde6a8d34f5'
    
      19         '3b44b85d75849edd67bc021e2e03317e'
    
      20         '7f135fe82df5edc0b1b9952851837b53'
    
      21         'e17a3dd4473b2b65ae257fbd045466bc'
    
      22         'a0536133a127435f8f715d5dd68da074')
    
      23
    
      24package() {
    
      25  cd $srcdir/ParaJVE
    
      26
    
      27  # Delete unneeded files
    
      28  if [ "${CARCH}" = 'x86_64' ]; then
    
      29     rm libs/setup/*32*
    
      30  elif  [ "${CARCH}" = 'i686' ]; then
    
      31     rm libs/setup/*64*
    
      32  fi
    
      33
    
      34  # Data
    
      35  mkdir -p $pkgdir/usr/share/$pkgname
    
      36  cp -r * $pkgdir/usr/share/$pkgname
    
      37
    
      38  # Start file
    
      39  cd ..
    
      40  install -Dm755 $pkgname $pkgdir/usr/bin/$pkgname
    
      41
    
      42  # License
    
      43  install -Dm644 LICENSE $pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/ParaJVE/LICENSE
    
      44
    
      45  # Desktop icon
    
      46  install -Dm644 splash.png $pkgdir/usr/share/pixmaps/$pkgname.png
    
      47  install -Dm644 $pkgname.desktop $pkgdir/usr/share/applications/$pkgname.desktop
    
      48
    
      49  # Write permissions
    
      50  chmod 777 -R $pkgdir/usr/share/$pkgname
    
      51}
    
      52

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