slack-electron

MEDIUM

maintainer furai 34 votes scanned 2026-10-26 11:44:54.928123

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Why flagged

One or more source=() URLs point to a host outside the trusted allowlist (github.com, gitlab.com, codeberg.org, pypi.org, …).

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:26 "$pkgname-$pkgver.deb::https://downloads.slack-edge.com/desktop-releases/linux/x64/$pkgver/slack-desktop-$pkgver-amd64.deb"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Andrew Simmons <agsimmons0 at gmail dot com>
    
      2# Contributor: Carl Smedstad <carsme@archlinux.org>
    
      3# Contributor: Luis Martinez <luis dot martinez at disroot dot org>
    
      4# Contributor: Moon Sungjoon <sumoon at seoulsaram dot org>
    
      5# Contributor: Yurii Kolesnykov <root@yurikoles.com>
    
      6
    
      7pkgname=slack-electron
    
      8pkgver=4.52.182
    
      9pkgrel=1
    
      10pkgdesc="Slack Desktop (Beta) for Linux, using the system Electron package"
    
      11arch=(x86_64)
    
      12url="https://slack.com/downloads/linux"
    
      13license=(LicenseRef-SlackProprietary)
    
      14_electronver=44
    
      15depends=(
    
      16  "electron$_electronver"
    
      17  glibc
    
      18  libstdc++
    
      19  libx11
    
      20  libxkbfile
    
      21)
    
      22optdepends=('libappindicator-gtk3: for notification indicator in the status bar on GNOME')
    
      23provides=(slack-desktop)
    
      24conflicts=(slack-desktop)
    
      25source=(
    
      26  "$pkgname-$pkgver.deb::https://downloads.slack-edge.com/desktop-releases/linux/x64/$pkgver/slack-desktop-$pkgver-amd64.deb"
    
      27  "slack.sh"
    
      28)
    
      29noextract=("$pkgname-$pkgver.deb")
    
      30sha256sums=(
    
      31  '568f9e76a143a5ead69645192e38131897f85af7645d7d81897f36fdaac8f700'
    
      32  '1b2229fa419ede9858fb0af5351add8f65ddc573abb043d44b4ef979a8bbd996'
    
      33)
    
      34
    
      35_archive="$pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      36
    
      37prepare() {
    
      38  sed -i "s/@ELECTRON_VERSION@/$_electronver/" slack.sh
    
      39
    
      40  mkdir -p "$_archive"
    
      41  bsdtar -xf "$pkgname-$pkgver.deb" -C "$_archive"
    
      42  bsdtar -xf "$_archive/data.tar.xz" -C "$_archive"
    
      43
    
      44  cd "$_archive"
    
      45
    
      46  grep -q "^$_electronver" usr/lib/slack/version \
    
      47    || (
    
      48      echo "Electron version mismatch"
    
      49      exit 1
    
      50    )
    
      51
    
      52  # Enable slack silent mode and fix icon
    
      53  sed -ri \
    
      54    -e 's|^(Exec=.+/slack)(.+)|\1 -s\2|' \
    
      55    -e 's/^Icon=.+slack\.png/Icon=slack/' \
    
      56    usr/share/applications/slack.desktop
    
      57
    
      58  # Slack is hard-coded to disable screen sharing on Wayland - remove this
    
      59  # limitation.
    
      60  sed -i 's|,"WebRTCPipeWireCapturer"|,"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"|' \
    
      61    usr/lib/slack/resources/app.asar
    
      62}
    
      63
    
      64package() {
    
      65  cd "$_archive"
    
      66
    
      67  install -vdm755 "$pkgdir/usr/lib/slack/resources/"
    
      68  cp -va -t "$pkgdir/usr/lib/slack/resources/" usr/lib/slack/resources/*
    
      69
    
      70  install -vdm755 "$pkgdir/usr/lib/slack/locales/"
    
      71  cp -va -t "$pkgdir/usr/lib/slack/locales/" usr/lib/slack/locales/*
    
      72
    
      73  install -vDm644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/lib/slack" \
    
      74    usr/lib/slack/LICENSE \
    
      75    usr/lib/slack/LICENSES-linux.json \
    
      76    usr/lib/slack/resources.pak \
    
      77    usr/lib/slack/version
    
      78
    
      79  install -vDm755 "$srcdir/slack.sh" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/slack"
    
      80
    
      81  install -vDm644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications" usr/share/applications/slack.desktop
    
      82  install -vDm644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/pixmaps" usr/share/pixmaps/slack.png
    
      83  install -vDm644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname" usr/lib/slack/LICENSE
    
      84}
    
      85

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-17 00:27
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-10-26 11:44
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # Contributor: Yurii Kolesnykov <root@yurikoles.com>
 
 pkgname=slack-electron
-pkgver=4.52.155
+pkgver=4.52.182
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Slack Desktop (Beta) for Linux, using the system Electron package"
 arch=(x86_64)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 )
 noextract=("$pkgname-$pkgver.deb")
 sha256sums=(
-  '966536026f5afcd1c75a395dddd87b9596580931f659b40cebb21ab3add71b2f'
+  '568f9e76a143a5ead69645192e38131897f85af7645d7d81897f36fdaac8f700'
   '1b2229fa419ede9858fb0af5351add8f65ddc573abb043d44b4ef979a8bbd996'
 )
 

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-10-26 11:44:54	Medium	1
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Clean	3
2026-09-16 13:22:46	Medium	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Low	3
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Low	3
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Low	3
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Low	3
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Low	3
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Low	3
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Low	3
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Low	3
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Low	3
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Low	3
2026-09-06 15:12:20	Medium	2
2026-09-06 13:11:32	Medium	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