slurp-vst-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer isivisi 0 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary (SLURP VST plugin) from a personal domain (isivisi.ca) rather than a well-known code hosting platform like GitHub releases. The binary is executed/installed directly. While a sha256 checksum is provided (mitigating tampering in transit), the checksum only protects against the specific downloaded file being altered after the PKGBUILD was written — it does not protect against the domain owner replacing the file at the same URL with a new malicious version (the checksum would then fail, but the risk window exists). Additionally, the package() function installs files directly into the user's home directory (~/.vst3/ and ~/.clap/) rather than $pkgdir, which is non-standard and bypasses package management tracking. The source is the maintainer's own personal website, which is the official distribution point for this plugin, so this is not clearly malicious — but a prebuilt binary from a personal host with home-directory installation warrants medium concern.

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:15 "https://isivisi.ca/slurp/downloads/SLURP-linux-x64.zip"

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 (SLURP VST plugin) from a personal domain (isivisi.ca) rather than a well-known code hosting platform like GitHub releases. The binary is executed/installed directly. While a sha256 checksum is provided (mitigating tampering in transit), the checksum only protects against the specific downloaded file being altered after the PKGBUILD was written — it does not protect against the domain owner replacing the file at the same URL with a new malicious version (the checksum would then fail, but the risk window exists). Additionally, the package() function installs files directly into the user's home directory (~/.vst3/ and ~/.clap/) rather than $pkgdir, which is non-standard and bypasses package management tracking. The source is the maintainer's own personal website, which is the official distribution point for this plugin, so this is not clearly malicious — but a prebuilt binary from a personal host with home-directory installation warrants medium concern.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: John Iannandrea <github.com/isivisi>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname='slurp-vst-bin'
    
      4pkgver=1.1.5
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="The freely distributed version of the SLURP VST Plugin."
    
      7url='https://isivisi.ca/slurp'
    
      8license=('SLURP-EULA')
    
      9arch=(x86_64)
    
      10groups=()
    
      11depends=()
    
      12makedepends=()
    
      13
    
      14source=(
    
      15    "https://isivisi.ca/slurp/downloads/SLURP-linux-x64.zip"
    
      16)
    
      17
    
      18sha256sums=(
    
      19    732d2e124eaa06c9833654a98995b91e0a3769df0badd4be8abbcdafdef2bf61
    
      20)
    
      21
    
      22package() {
    
      23    install -vDm 755 ./bin/SLURP "$pkgdir/usr/bin/SLURP"
    
      24    install -vDm 644 ../SLURP.desktop "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/SLURP.desktop"
    
      25	cp -r ./bin/SLURP.vst3 ~/.vst3/SLURP.vst3
    
      26    cp ./bin/SLURP.clap ~/.clap/SLURP.clap
    
      27}

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Medium	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Medium	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Medium	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Medium	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Medium	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Medium	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Medium	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Medium	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Medium	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Medium	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Medium	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Medium	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Medium	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Medium	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Medium	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Medium	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Medium	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Medium	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Medium	2
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Medium	2