soundwire

maintainer Max-P · 22 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads and installs a prebuilt binary (SoundWireServer) from georgielabs.net, which is the vendor's own personal/product website rather than a major forge or official distribution channel. The binary is executed directly and installed to /usr/bin. While this is the legitimate upstream source for this proprietary application (SoundWire is a known commercial product by Georgie Labs), the supply-chain risk is real: if georgielabs.net is compromised, users would receive and execute a malicious binary. The sha256sum provides some integrity protection but no authenticity guarantee. This is a classic medium-severity case: a prebuilt executable from a small personal/vendor host with no code signing or reproducible build verification.

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 source=("https://georgielabs.net/SoundWire_Server_linux64.tar.gz")

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 85%): The PKGBUILD downloads and installs a prebuilt binary (SoundWireServer) from georgielabs.net, which is the vendor's own personal/product website rather than a major forge or official distribution channel. The binary is executed directly and installed to /usr/bin. While this is the legitimate upstream source for this proprietary application (SoundWire is a known commercial product by Georgie Labs), the supply-chain risk is real: if georgielabs.net is compromised, users would receive and execute a malicious binary. The sha256sum provides some integrity protection but no authenticity guarantee. This is a classic medium-severity case: a prebuilt executable from a small personal/vendor host with no code signing or reproducible build verification.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer:  Maxime Poulin <maxpoulin64@gmail.com>
    
      2# Contributor: Jan Hrdina <jan.hrdka@gmail.com>
    
      3# Contributor: Gabriel B. Casella <gbc921@gmail.com>
    
      4pkgname=soundwire
    
      5pkgver=3.0.0
    
      6pkgrel=4
    
      7pkgdesc="Wirelessly transmit any audio from your PC to your Android phone or other PCs"
    
      8url="http://georgielabs.net"
    
      9arch=('x86_64')
    
      10license=('custom')
    
      11depends=('portaudio' 'qt5-base' 'curl')
    
      12optdepends=('pavucontrol')
    
      13install='soundwire.install'
    
      14
    
      15source=("https://georgielabs.net/SoundWire_Server_linux64.tar.gz")
    
      16sha256sums=('d60f2a5c0750cb89bc330d22ac61116327887c53a87aac1e0dca23ee634683cd')
    
      17
    
      18package() {
    
      19  cd "${srcdir}/SoundWireServer"
    
      20
    
      21  sed -i 's/sw-icon/soundwire/' SoundWire-Server.desktop
    
      22
    
      23  install -Dm644 license.txt "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname/license.txt"
    
      24  install -Dm644 opus_license.txt "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname/opus_license.txt"
    
      25  install -Dm644 README.txt "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname/README.txt"
    
      26  install -Dm644 sw-icon.xpm "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/$pkgname.xpm"
    
      27  install -Dm644 SoundWire-Server.desktop "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/$pkgname.desktop"
    
      28  install -D SoundWireServer "$pkgdir/usr/bin/SoundWireServer"
    
      29}
    
      30# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
    
      31

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