plogue-chipsounds

MEDIUM
maintainer gerardlouw 0 votes base plogue-plugins scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The package downloads prebuilt .deb files from S3 buckets on non-standard hosts (chipsounds.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com, etc.), which are unverifiable and could be silently swapped; these are executed during packaging, posing a supply-chain risk despite checksums being present.

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 "https://chipsounds.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/LINUX_plogue-chipsounds_${pkgver}_x86_64.zip"
  • PKGBUILD:16 "https://chipspeech.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/LINUX_plogue-chipspeech_${pkgver}_x86_64.zip"
  • PKGBUILD:17 "https://sforzando.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/LINUX_plogue-sforzando_${pkgver}_x86_64.zip"
Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 90%): The package downloads prebuilt .deb files from S3 buckets on non-standard hosts (chipsounds.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com, etc.), which are unverifiable and could be silently swapped; these are executed during packaging, posing a supply-chain risk despite checksums being present.

PKGBUILD

3 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Gerard Louw <gerardlouw@gmail.com>
2pkgname=('plogue-aria' 'plogue-chipspeech' 'plogue-chipsounds' 'plogue-sforzando' 'plogue-tablewarp2')
3pkgbase=plogue-plugins
4pkgver='1.982'
5debver='1.982'
6license=('custom')
7pkgrel=1
8epoch=1
9pkgdesc="Plogue audio plugins, beta Linux port (unofficial support, DO NOT report bugs upstream!)"
10arch=('x86_64')
11url="https://plogue.com"
12options=('!strip')
13install=plogue-plugins.install
14source_x86_64=(
15 "https://chipsounds.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/LINUX_plogue-chipsounds_${pkgver}_x86_64.zip"
16 "https://chipspeech.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/LINUX_plogue-chipspeech_${pkgver}_x86_64.zip"
17 "https://sforzando.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/LINUX_plogue-sforzando_${pkgver}_x86_64.zip"
18)
19noextract=()
20sha512sums_x86_64=('ec30b0d8ca8ac9d2d082d2c03d5e3e6b09745e4a6c0c87d180cb1d7604cacd5474c469b748aa8d10641b2ed20bc44cde4cee9504947601fde51a9a33bb49eb3d'
21 '32d1507f2a889209077111b5bacbe556e47dfc8c7848edb009ca422ef607b94d6bd793cd62964d501f4c5e44f8e7cada5d7fcd9bbcc5f72f9913bbc4aad15584'
22 '7c472244d8c0968b82e5b40d10f22822bebbc3c82bf0bbc6031e98da7b26bc0662881255239bbb1afe29a6690de727174c801f39ac0e26439a93a56f4cf861a8')
23
24dopkg() {
25 mkdir -p "${pkgname}"
26 ar x "LINUX_${1:-${pkgname}}_${pkgver}_x86_64/${pkgname}_${debver}_amd64.deb" "data.tar.xz" --output="${pkgname}"
27 tar -C "${pkgdir}" -xJf "${pkgname}/data.tar.xz"
28 install -Dm 644 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/copyright" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/copyright"
29}
30package_plogue-aria() {
31 # from deb: libgtk-3-0,libglib2.0-0,libpango-1.0-0,libcairo2,libpangocairo-1.0-0,curl
32 depends=('gtk3' 'glib2' 'pango' 'cairo' 'curl' 'zenity')
33 optdepends=('libsndfile: Adds support for more audio formats')
34 dopkg plogue-sforzando
35}
36package_plogue-chipspeech() {
37 depends=('plogue-aria')
38 dopkg
39}
40package_plogue-chipsounds() {
41 depends=('plogue-aria')
42 dopkg
43}
44package_plogue-sforzando() {
45 depends=('plogue-aria')
46 dopkg
47}
48package_plogue-tablewarp2() {
49 depends=('plogue-aria')
50 dopkg plogue-sforzando
51}
52
53

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