slack-desktop

LOW

maintainer ogarcia 660 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from Slack's official release infrastructure (slack-edge.com), which is plausibly the project's own domain; despite the static analyzer flagging it as non-standard, the source is official and verifiable via checksum, and the package only extracts and sanitizes the payload without executing remote code.

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 Slack's official release infrastructure (slack-edge.com), which is plausibly the project's own domain; despite the static analyzer flagging it as non-standard, the source is official and verifiable via checksum, and the package only extracts and sanitizes the payload without executing remote code.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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=("https://downloads.slack-edge.com/desktop-releases/linux/x64/${pkgver}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-amd64.deb"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: "Amhairghin" Oscar Garcia Amor (https://ogarcia.me)
    
      2# Contributor: Simon Gomizelj <simongmzlj(at)gmail(dot)com>
    
      3# Contributor: Kyle Manna <kyle(at)kylemanna(dot)com>
    
      4
    
      5pkgname=slack-desktop
    
      6pkgver=4.52.182
    
      7pkgrel=1
    
      8pkgdesc="Slack Desktop (Beta) for Linux"
    
      9arch=('x86_64')
    
      10url="https://slack.com/downloads"
    
      11license=('custom')
    
      12depends=('gtk3' 'libsecret' 'libxss' 'nss' 'xdg-utils')
    
      13optdepends=('libappindicator-gtk3: Systray indicator support'
    
      14            'org.freedesktop.secrets: Keyring password store support')
    
      15options=('!debug')
    
      16source=("https://downloads.slack-edge.com/desktop-releases/linux/x64/${pkgver}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-amd64.deb"
    
      17        "${pkgname}.patch")
    
      18noextract=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}-amd64.deb")
    
      19b2sums=('8abb915e90418e88d27d21ce567b9f5f78afd0b474c1f974f360cd2e11ca5bfe6f69ecf9ece9ca8859033f44c86bcb0daeb22c8556b353645862e2cc4b94c797'
    
      20        '103447636acd7ac2789d7d89008483a2077d862a51a64427a66c51e64dc9eac588de187f13df2778ccb7b24110a36c259b33c0074ff69c9bab3f89283a1efaf1')
    
      21
    
      22package() {
    
      23    bsdtar -O -xf "slack-desktop-${pkgver}"*.deb data.tar.xz | bsdtar -C "${pkgdir}" -xJf -
    
      24
    
      25    # Fix hardcoded icon path in .desktop file
    
      26    patch -d "${pkgdir}" -p1 <"${pkgname}".patch
    
      27
    
      28    # Permission fix
    
      29    find "${pkgdir}" -type d -exec chmod 755 {} +
    
      30
    
      31    # Remove all unnecessary stuff
    
      32    rm -rf "${pkgdir}/etc"
    
      33    rm -rf "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/slack/src"
    
      34    rm -rf "${pkgdir}/usr/share/lintian"
    
      35    rm -rf "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc"
    
      36
    
      37    # Move license
    
      38    install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}"
    
      39    mv "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/slack/LICENSE" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}"
    
      40    ln -s "/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/slack/LICENSE"
    
      41}
    
      42

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-10-30 00:29
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-11-01 00:21
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Contributor: Kyle Manna <kyle(at)kylemanna(dot)com>
 
 pkgname=slack-desktop
-pkgver=4.52.178
+pkgver=4.52.182
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Slack Desktop (Beta) for Linux"
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 source=("https://downloads.slack-edge.com/desktop-releases/linux/x64/${pkgver}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-amd64.deb"
         "${pkgname}.patch")
 noextract=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}-amd64.deb")
-b2sums=('eb686bf7cd361e595ba6508dcc8938165304fd72c02e37d028b6662ad5117a1a9cfeeed576761da5b64fec1709c8a393ebf5746c2df157392659a41bb43fad16'
+b2sums=('8abb915e90418e88d27d21ce567b9f5f78afd0b474c1f974f360cd2e11ca5bfe6f69ecf9ece9ca8859033f44c86bcb0daeb22c8556b353645862e2cc4b94c797'
         '103447636acd7ac2789d7d89008483a2077d862a51a64427a66c51e64dc9eac588de187f13df2778ccb7b24110a36c259b33c0074ff69c9bab3f89283a1efaf1')
 
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Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Low	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Low	2
2026-10-30 07:55:24	Low	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Low	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Low	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Low	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Low	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Low	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Low	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Low	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Low	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Low	2
2026-10-21 07:31:05	Low	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Low	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Low	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Low	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Low	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Low	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Low	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Low	2