speed-dreams-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer baboon 2 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary tarball from files.speed-dreams.net using an opaque hash-like URL path (not a versioned release filename), with sha512sums='SKIP', meaning no integrity verification whatsoever. The package() function then extracts this binary tarball directly into pkgdir and installs it system-wide. While files.speed-dreams.net appears to be the official project's file host, the combination of: (1) a non-descriptive URL with no version in the filename, (2) completely skipped checksum verification, and (3) installation of prebuilt binaries rather than compiled-from-source code constitutes a genuine supply-chain risk. If the remote file is replaced or the host is compromised, arbitrary binaries would be installed with no integrity check to catch it. This is a real medium-severity concern, not a false positive.

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:37 source=("https://files.speed-dreams.net/public/1af7cc7b92323e918c1087051b32d647")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 82%): This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary tarball from files.speed-dreams.net using an opaque hash-like URL path (not a versioned release filename), with sha512sums='SKIP', meaning no integrity verification whatsoever. The package() function then extracts this binary tarball directly into pkgdir and installs it system-wide. While files.speed-dreams.net appears to be the official project's file host, the combination of: (1) a non-descriptive URL with no version in the filename, (2) completely skipped checksum verification, and (3) installation of prebuilt binaries rather than compiled-from-source code constitutes a genuine supply-chain risk. If the remote file is replaced or the host is compromised, arbitrary binaries would be installed with no integrity check to catch it. This is a real medium-severity concern, not a false positive.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: baboon
    
      2
    
      3pkgname="speed-dreams-bin"
    
      4pkgver=2.4.2
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="Speed Dreams is a fork of TORCS which aims to implement exciting new features, improving visual and physics realism. "
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://speed-dreams.net/"
    
      9license=('GPL3')
    
      10depends=(
    
      11speed-dreams-data
    
      12glibc
    
      13cjson
    
      14libcurl-gnutls
    
      15enet
    
      16expat
    
      17gcc-libs
    
      18freeglut
    
      19libglvnd
    
      20libjpeg6-turbo
    
      21minizip
    
      22freealut
    
      23mesa
    
      24openscenegraph
    
      25libpng
    
      26rhash
    
      27sdl2_mixer
    
      28libstdc++5
    
      29zlib
    
      30libxi
    
      31libxmu
    
      32libxrandr
    
      33libarchive
    
      34libplib-bin)
    
      35conflicts=('speed-dreams-svn' 'speed-dreams-git' 'speed-dreams-appimage' 'speed-dreams')
    
      36provides=('speed-dreams')
    
      37source=("https://files.speed-dreams.net/public/1af7cc7b92323e918c1087051b32d647")
    
      38sha512sums=('SKIP')
    
      39options=('!strip')
    
      40
    
      41package() {
    
      42  cd $pkgdir
    
      43  tar xf $srcdir/data.tar.gz
    
      44  #echo "Speed Dreams wants /usr/lib/librhash.so.0, which doesn't seem to exist when rhash is installed on Arch."
    
      45  #if [ ! -f /usr/lib/librhash.so.0 ]; then
    
      46  echo "Symlinking /usr/lib/librhash.so /usr/lib/librhash.so.0"
    
      47  ln -sfv /usr/lib/librhash.so $pkgdir/usr/lib/librhash.so.0
    
      48  #else
    
      49  #  echo "It seems like you already have it though! "
    
      50  #fi
    
      51  ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsolid.so $pkgdir/usr/lib/
    
      52  ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbroad.so $pkgdir/usr/lib/
    
      53  ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmoto.so $pkgdir/usr/lib
    
      54}
    
      55

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2026-09-17 00:27:14	Medium	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Medium	2
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2026-09-14 00:27:57	Medium	2
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