remoteit-desktop-bin

maintainer Rik5 · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from downloads.remote.it, which is the official vendor download host for the Remote.it product. This is a legitimate vendor distribution channel, not a personal or unofficial host. However, the package uses only an MD5 checksum (cryptographically weak, collision-vulnerable) rather than SHA256/SHA512, providing minimal integrity protection. The artifact is a prebuilt Electron/Chromium-based desktop application binary that gets extracted and installed directly — no source build, no reproducibility. This is a classic 'binary blob from vendor' pattern: the risk is real (silent swap, weak checksum) but not clearly malicious. The host is the official vendor CDN, which reduces but does not eliminate supply-chain concern. Rating remains MEDIUM due to: (1) prebuilt binary execution, (2) only MD5 integrity check, (3) no GPG signature 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:17 source=("https://downloads.remote.it/desktop/v${pkgver}/Remote.It-Installer-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 PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from downloads.remote.it, which is the official vendor download host for the Remote.it product. This is a legitimate vendor distribution channel, not a personal or unofficial host. However, the package uses only an MD5 checksum (cryptographically weak, collision-vulnerable) rather than SHA256/SHA512, providing minimal integrity protection. The artifact is a prebuilt Electron/Chromium-based desktop application binary that gets extracted and installed directly — no source build, no reproducibility. This is a classic 'binary blob from vendor' pattern: the risk is real (silent swap, weak checksum) but not clearly malicious. The host is the official vendor CDN, which reduces but does not eliminate supply-chain concern. Rating remains MEDIUM due to: (1) prebuilt binary execution, (2) only MD5 integrity check, (3) no GPG signature verification.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Luca Anastasio <anastasio dot lu at gmail dot com>
    
      2pkgname=remoteit-desktop-bin
    
      3pkgver=3.41.0
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="Remote.it cross platform desktop application for creating and hosting connections"
    
      6url="https://remote.it/"
    
      7arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
    
      8license=('custom')
    
      9depends=('alsa-lib' 'atk' 'at-spi2-atk' 'at-spi2-core' 'cairo' 'dbus' 'desktop-file-utils' 'discord' 'expat' 'gcc-libs' 'gdk-pixbuf2' 'glib2' 'glibc' 'gtk3' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'libappindicator-gtk3' 'libcups' 'libdrm' 'libnotify' 'libsecret' 'libx11' 'libxcb' 'libxcomposite' 'libxdamage' 'libxext' 'libxfixes' 'libxkbcommon' 'libxrandr' 'libxss' 'libxtst' 'mesa' 'nspr' 'nss' 'pango' 'util-linux-libs' 'xdg-utils')
    
      10optdepends=()
    
      11makedepends=()
    
      12conflicts=('remoteit' 'remoteit-desktop')
    
      13replaces=()
    
      14backup=()
    
      15options=('!strip' '!emptydirs')
    
      16install=${pkgname}.install
    
      17source=("https://downloads.remote.it/desktop/v${pkgver}/Remote.It-Installer-amd64.deb")
    
      18md5sums=('afa7284958cc13b3aec193d2bb83cb1a')
    
      19
    
      20package() {
    
      21  tar xf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}"
    
      22  install -D -m644 "${pkgdir}/opt/Remote.It/LICENSES.chromium.html" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
    
      23}
    
      24

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