realvnc-vnc-viewer

maintainer Kewl · 61 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from RealVNC's official downloads domain, which is plausibly the project's own release infrastructure; despite the static analyzer flag for a non-whitelisted host, the source is official and verifiable via checksum, and the build process is a normal extraction and wrapper script installation.

Triggered rules

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from RealVNC's official downloads domain, which is plausibly the project's own release infrastructure; despite the static analyzer flag for a non-whitelisted host, the source is official and verifiable via checksum, and the build process is a normal extraction and wrapper script installation.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

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:17 source_x86_64=("https://downloads.realvnc.com/download/file/realvnc-connect-viewer/RealVNC-Connect-Viewer-${pkgver}-Linux-x64.deb")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: ava1ar <mail(at)ava1ar(dot)me>
    
      2# Maintainer: Kewl <xrjy@nygb.rh.bet(rot13)>
    
      3# Contributor: Star Brilliant <echo bTEzMjUzQGhvdG1haWwuY29tCg== | base64 -d>
    
      4_watch=('https://www.realvnc.com/en/connect/download/viewer/linux/' 'body' 'regex' 'RealVNC-Connect-Viewer-(\d[\d.]*\d+)-Linux-x64\.deb' 'pkgver')
    
      5
    
      6pkgname=realvnc-vnc-viewer
    
      7pkgver=8.3.0
    
      8pkgrel=1
    
      9pkgdesc='VNC remote desktop client software by RealVNC'
    
      10arch=('x86_64')
    
      11url='https://www.realvnc.com/'
    
      12license=('custom')
    
      13depends=('atk' 'at-spi2-core' 'cairo' 'dbus' 'fontconfig' 'glib2' 'gtk3' 'libepoxy' 'pango' 'libx11' 'libxext')
    
      14optdepends=('cups' 'avahi')
    
      15conflicts=('realvnc-rvncconnect' 'tightvnc' 'tigervnc' 'turbovnc')
    
      16
    
      17source_x86_64=("https://downloads.realvnc.com/download/file/realvnc-connect-viewer/RealVNC-Connect-Viewer-${pkgver}-Linux-x64.deb")
    
      18sha256sums_x86_64=('ef1d66e5fe457d7023e150f49e9c626609082aa014bf0ba7517a96d4362a6afb')
    
      19
    
      20package() {
    
      21    bsdtar --no-same-owner -xf "${srcdir}/data.tar.xz" -C "${pkgdir}"
    
      22
    
      23    install -Dm755 /dev/stdin "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/vncviewer" <<'EOF'
    
      24#!/bin/sh
    
      25if [ "${XDG_SESSION_TYPE:-}" = wayland ] || [ -n "${WAYLAND_DISPLAY:-}" ]; then
    
      26    export GDK_BACKEND=x11
    
      27fi
    
      28
    
      29if [ -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ] && [ -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID" ]; then
    
      30    exec dbus-run-session -- /usr/lib/rvncconnect/rvncconnect "$@"
    
      31fi
    
      32
    
      33exec /usr/lib/rvncconnect/rvncconnect "$@"
    
      34EOF
    
      35
    
      36    sed -i 's|^Exec=/usr/lib/rvncconnect/rvncconnect|Exec=/usr/bin/vncviewer|' \
    
      37        "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/com.realvnc.rvncconnect.desktop"
    
      38    sed -i 's|^Exec=/usr/lib/rvncconnect/rvncconnect|Exec=/usr/bin/vncviewer|' \
    
      39        "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/com.realvnc.rvncconnect.connect.uri.desktop"
    
      40}
    
      41

Scan history

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2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	LOW	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	LOW	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	LOW	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	LOW	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	2