rstudio-desktop-bin

LOW

maintainer cbrnr 359 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from RStudio's official domain (download1.rstudio.org), which is plausibly part of their legitimate distribution infrastructure; despite the non-whitelisted host, the source is official and the package installs only the vendor-provided binary.

Triggered rules

Low AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from RStudio's official domain (download1.rstudio.org), which is plausibly part of their legitimate distribution infrastructure; despite the non-whitelisted host, the source is official and the package installs only the vendor-provided binary.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:19 source_x86_64=("https://download1.rstudio.org/electron/jammy/amd64/rstudio-${_pkgver}-amd64.deb")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Clemens Brunner < clemens dot brunner at gmail dot com >
    
      2pkgname=rstudio-desktop-bin
    
      3pkgver=2026.08.2.200
    
      4_pkgver=${pkgver%.*}-${pkgver##*.}
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="An integrated development environment (IDE) for R (binary from RStudio official repository)"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8license=('AGPL-3.0-or-later')
    
      9url="https://posit.co/products/open-source/rstudio/"
    
      10depends=('r>=3.3.0' 'sqlite' 'libxkbcommon')
    
      11optdepends=('clang: C/C++ and Rcpp code completion'
    
      12            'ttf-dejavu: fallback font support')
    
      13conflicts=('rstudio-desktop' 'rstudio-desktop-git' 'rstudio-desktop-preview-bin')
    
      14provides=("rstudio-desktop=${pkgver}")
    
      15options=(!strip)
    
      16
    
      17sha256sums_x86_64=('8e728f6e09745d194b83e1d090f8350e33d01e27e4135cccfb4af57936a39631')
    
      18
    
      19source_x86_64=("https://download1.rstudio.org/electron/jammy/amd64/rstudio-${_pkgver}-amd64.deb")
    
      20
    
      21package() {
    
      22  cd "$srcdir"
    
      23  tar Jxpf data.tar.xz -C "$pkgdir"
    
      24
    
      25  install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
    
      26
    
      27  ln -s /usr/lib/rstudio/rstudio "$pkgdir/usr/bin/rstudio"
    
      28
    
      29  install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname"
    
      30  ln -s /usr/lib/rstudio/resources/app/COPYING \
    
      31    "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/COPYING"
    
      32
    
      33}
    
      34

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-11 00:19
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-17 00:27
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Maintainer: Clemens Brunner < clemens dot brunner at gmail dot com >
 pkgname=rstudio-desktop-bin
-pkgver=2026.08.1.195
+pkgver=2026.08.2.200
 _pkgver=${pkgver%.*}-${pkgver##*.}
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="An integrated development environment (IDE) for R (binary from RStudio official repository)"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 provides=("rstudio-desktop=${pkgver}")
 options=(!strip)
 
-sha256sums_x86_64=('69e10963d5d40a3ce1803dca68b7045d1fb34632c66117902db82753d4486af9')
+sha256sums_x86_64=('8e728f6e09745d194b83e1d090f8350e33d01e27e4135cccfb4af57936a39631')
 
 source_x86_64=("https://download1.rstudio.org/electron/jammy/amd64/rstudio-${_pkgver}-amd64.deb")
 

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Low	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Low	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Low	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Low	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Low	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Low	2
2026-09-11 05:22:12	Low	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Low	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Low	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Low	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Low	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Low	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Low	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Low	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Low	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Low	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Low	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Low	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Low	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Low	2