realvnc-vnc-viewer

LOW
maintainer Kewl 61 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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

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