shutter-encoder

MEDIUM

maintainer gromain 9 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from the official project domain (shutterencoder.com), extracts it, and installs the binaries directly without building from source. This is a legitimate supply-chain concern: the package installs pre-compiled binaries (including a bundled JVM application with native libs) from a single upstream host with no reproducibility guarantee. However, the host is the official project website, there is a sha256sum pinning the specific release, and the project is a well-known video converter tool. The sha256sum provides integrity verification against the specific file at time of packaging, though it cannot protect against a future silent replacement at the same URL. This pattern (binary repackaging from official vendor site with checksum) is common in AUR and represents a medium supply-chain risk rather than a high or clean rating — the binary is executed, it comes from a non-forge personal/project domain, and there is no source build. Not piracy, not broken.

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:10 source=("https://www.shutterencoder.com/Shutter%20Encoder%20$pkgver%20Linux%2064bits.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 the official project domain (shutterencoder.com), extracts it, and installs the binaries directly without building from source. This is a legitimate supply-chain concern: the package installs pre-compiled binaries (including a bundled JVM application with native libs) from a single upstream host with no reproducibility guarantee. However, the host is the official project website, there is a sha256sum pinning the specific release, and the project is a well-known video converter tool. The sha256sum provides integrity verification against the specific file at time of packaging, though it cannot protect against a future silent replacement at the same URL. This pattern (binary repackaging from official vendor site with checksum) is common in AUR and represents a medium supply-chain risk rather than a high or clean rating — the binary is executed, it comes from a non-forge personal/project domain, and there is no source build. Not piracy, not broken.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Romain Bazile <gromain.baz@gmail.com>
    
      2pkgname=shutter-encoder
    
      3pkgver=20.0
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="Converter for all formats video|audio|image professionnals codecs and standards - swiss knife tool for Linux"
    
      6arch=("x86_64")
    
      7url="https://www.shutterencoder.com/"
    
      8license=('GPL')
    
      9depends=(java-runtime ffmpeg vlc mediainfo dvdauthor mkvtoolnix-cli perl-image-exiftool dcraw p7zip libcanberra uriparser util-linux-libs expat yt-dlp)
    
      10source=("https://www.shutterencoder.com/Shutter%20Encoder%20$pkgver%20Linux%2064bits.deb")
    
      11options=('!strip')
    
      12
    
      13sha256sums=('4c1fdec901ca7abff63811972ab5720ec67ff4627dc7077bf58b15728232dc2e')
    
      14
    
      15prepare() {
    
      16    mkdir -p shutter-encoder
    
      17    tar -xf data.tar.zst -C shutter-encoder/
    
      18}
    
      19
    
      20
    
      21package() {
    
      22    # Move main folder in place 
    
      23    mv "${srcdir}"/shutter-encoder/usr "${pkgdir}"/;
    
      24    mkdir -p "$pkgdir"/usr/share/pixmaps/
    
      25    install -m 644 "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib/Shutter\ Encoder/usr/bin/icon.png "$pkgdir"/usr/share/pixmaps/shutter-encoder.png
    
      26    chmod -R 755 "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/Shutter\ Encoder/
    
      27}
    
      28

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Medium	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Medium	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Medium	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Medium	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Medium	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Medium	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Medium	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Medium	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Medium	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Medium	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Medium	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Medium	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Medium	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Medium	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Medium	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Medium	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Medium	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Medium	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Medium	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Medium	2