realvnc-vnc-viewer-7

maintainer alstruit · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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

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      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

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
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	3
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	3
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	3
2026-07-21 00:24:15	LOW	3
2026-07-20 00:19:49	LOW	3
2026-07-19 00:17:08	LOW	3
2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	3
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	3
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	3
2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	3