ptyget-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer orphaned 1 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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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
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Medium	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Medium	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Medium	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Medium	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Medium	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Medium	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Medium	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Medium	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Medium	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Medium	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Medium	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Medium	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Medium	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Medium	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Medium	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Medium	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Medium	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Medium	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Medium	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Medium	2