ptyget-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer orphaned 1 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt x86_64 binary .deb from jdebp.eu, which is the personal/project website of Jonathan de Boyne Pollard, a well-known Unix software packager who maintains djbwares (a collection of DJB tools). This is not a random untrusted host — jdebp.eu is the canonical upstream distribution point for djbwares packages, and the URL pattern matches the site's documented Debian repository. However, it is still a personal host rather than a major institutional mirror, and the package installs prebuilt binaries without source compilation, which constitutes a genuine supply-chain concern: if jdebp.eu is compromised or the binary is swapped, the sha512 checksum provides integrity protection only against in-transit tampering, not against the host serving a malicious binary from the start. The sha512sum is present and appears correctly formatted. The risk is real but not elevated beyond a standard medium: prebuilt binary from a personal/project host with checksum verification.

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_x86_64=("https://jdebp.eu/Repository/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/ptyget_6_amd64.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 package downloads a prebuilt x86_64 binary .deb from jdebp.eu, which is the personal/project website of Jonathan de Boyne Pollard, a well-known Unix software packager who maintains djbwares (a collection of DJB tools). This is not a random untrusted host — jdebp.eu is the canonical upstream distribution point for djbwares packages, and the URL pattern matches the site's documented Debian repository. However, it is still a personal host rather than a major institutional mirror, and the package installs prebuilt binaries without source compilation, which constitutes a genuine supply-chain concern: if jdebp.eu is compromised or the binary is swapped, the sha512 checksum provides integrity protection only against in-transit tampering, not against the host serving a malicious binary from the start. The sha512sum is present and appears correctly formatted. The risk is real but not elevated beyond a standard medium: prebuilt binary from a personal/project host with checksum verification.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Generated by debtap
    
      2# Maintainer: Pierre Killy <myFirstName dot myLastNAme at gmail dot com>
    
      3# Contributor: Pierre Killy <myFirstName dot myLastNAme at gmail dot com>
    
      4# Author: Daniel J. Bernstein
    
      5pkgname=ptyget-bin
    
      6pkgver=6
    
      7pkgrel=2
    
      8pkgdesc="Toolset for running programs in their \"interactive mode\" behaviours."
    
      9arch=('x86_64')
    
      10url="https://jdebp.eu/Softwares/djbwares/"
    
      11license=('custom:ISC')
    
      12groups=('djbwares')
    
      13provides=('ptyget=6')
    
      14options=('!strip' '!emptydirs')
    
      15source_x86_64=("https://jdebp.eu/Repository/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/ptyget_6_amd64.deb")
    
      16sha512sums_x86_64=('78a9569af9773e19af426d7f383334158d52a89198dcbab10283234e70688c7524e2f3ebfe88c18f72058a85e2553b87cc41bc8bab45f1ed33d24d726b30834e')
    
      17
    
      18package(){
    
      19
    
      20	# Extract package data
    
      21	tar xf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}"
    
      22
    
      23	# Fix directories structure differencies
    
      24	cd "${pkgdir}"
    
      25
    
      26	mkdir usr/bin 2> /dev/null
    
      27	mv usr/local/bin/* usr/bin
    
      28	mv usr/local/sbin/* usr/bin
    
      29	rm -rf usr/local/bin usr/local/sbin
    
      30
    
      31	mv usr/local/* usr
    
      32	rm -rf usr/local
    
      33
    
      34	cd ..
    
      35
    
      36}
    
      37

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Medium	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Medium	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Medium	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Medium	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Medium	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Medium	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Medium	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Medium	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Medium	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Medium	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Medium	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Medium	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Medium	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Medium	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Medium	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Medium	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Medium	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Medium	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Medium	2
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Medium	2