realvnc-vnc-viewer-7

LOW
maintainer alstruit 2 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

Downloads official RealVNC viewer .deb packages via the Wayback Machine (web.archive.org) rather than directly from downloads.realvnc.com; the files are prebuilt binaries but checksums are provided and the source is the project's own official distribution, just proxied through archive.org — the main concern is that archive.org could theoretically serve a cached malicious version, but this is a low-risk indirection rather than a personal/untrusted host swap.

Triggered rules

Low AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 70%): Downloads official RealVNC viewer .deb packages via the Wayback Machine (web.archive.org) rather than directly from downloads.realvnc.com; the files are prebuilt binaries but checksums are provided and the source is the project's own official distribution, just proxied through archive.org — the main concern is that archive.org could theoretically serve a cached malicious version, but this is a low-risk indirection rather than a personal/untrusted host swap.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:16 source_x86_64=("https://web.archive.org/web/20251201122208/https://downloads.realvnc.com/download/file/viewer.files/VNC-Viewer-${pkgver}-Linux-x64.deb")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: alstruit <alsturit at gmail.com>
2# Contributor: ava1ar <mail(at)ava1ar(dot)me>
3# Contributor: Kewl <xrjy@nygb.rh.bet(rot13)>
4# Contributor: Star Brilliant <echo bTEzMjUzQGhvdG1haWwuY29tCg== | base64 -d>
5
6pkgname=realvnc-vnc-viewer-7
7pkgver=7.15.1
8pkgrel=1
9pkgdesc='VNC remote desktop client viewer software by RealVNC'
10arch=('x86_64' 'armv7h' 'aarch64')
11url='https://www.realvnc.com/'
12license=('custom')
13depends=('libsm' 'libxext')
14conflicts=('realvnc-viewer' 'realvnc-rvnc-connect')
15
16source_x86_64=("https://web.archive.org/web/20251201122208/https://downloads.realvnc.com/download/file/viewer.files/VNC-Viewer-${pkgver}-Linux-x64.deb")
17source_armv7h=("https://web.archive.org/web/https://downloads.realvnc.com/download/file/viewer.files/VNC-Viewer-${pkgver}-Linux-ARM.deb")
18source_aarch64=("https://web.archive.org/web/https://downloads.realvnc.com/download/file/viewer.files/VNC-Viewer-${pkgver}-Linux-ARM64.deb")
19
20sha256sums_x86_64=('05e3c75e053507492f7b9a3f2d75925ac6b5dc9249af73ae6c1ac51bc5d6aabb')
21sha256sums_armv7h=('495e09bc82229a178bfed850f951a33401197e6d43f152de8a139ba8633d6b74')
22sha256sums_aarch64=('ff746082e9defb3e3350bf16f17bb6232fc68b944a67575ea03382b779ea7061')
23
24
25package() {
26 bsdtar -xf "${srcdir}/data.tar.xz" -C "${pkgdir}"
27
28 install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}"
29 ln -s "/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/copyright" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
30}
31

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