teamviewer

maintainer swiftgeek · 1484 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads official TeamViewer .deb binaries from the vendor's own domain (dl.teamviewer.com), which is a standard and expected source, despite not being on a whitelist; the build process unpacks and installs them without executing remote code or introducing unverifiable payloads.

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 official TeamViewer .deb binaries from the vendor's own domain (dl.teamviewer.com), which is a standard and expected source, despite not being on a whitelist; the build process unpacks and installs them without executing remote code or introducing unverifiable payloads.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:30 source_x86_64=("https://dl.teamviewer.com/download/linux/version_${pkgver%%.*}x/teamviewer_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1pkgname=teamviewer
    
      2pkgver=15.79.4
    
      3pkgrel=1
    
      4pkgdesc='All-In-One Software for Remote Support and Online Meetings'
    
      5arch=('x86_64' 'armv7h' 'aarch64')
    
      6url='https://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/portal/linux/'
    
      7license=('custom')
    
      8options=('!strip')
    
      9provides=('teamviewer')
    
      10conflicts=('teamviewer-beta')
    
      11# /opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/script/teamviewer_setup checklibs can check deps for each TV component:
    
      12# TV_DMN, TV_DESK, TV_GUI
    
      13depends=(
    
      14	'hicolor-icon-theme'
    
      15	'qt5-x11extras'
    
      16	'qt5-quickcontrols' # Doesn't appear in namcap, won't display UI without it.
    
      17	'qt5-svg'
    
      18)
    
      19#depends_x86_64=(
    
      20# libdepends:
    
      21#	'lib32-libxtst'
    
      22#	'lib32-libxinerama'
    
      23#	'lib32-libxrandr'
    
      24#	'lib32-libxdamage'
    
      25#	'lib32-fontconfig'
    
      26#	'lib32-libsm')
    
      27#depends_i686=()
    
      28#depends_armv7h=()
    
      29install=teamviewer.install
    
      30source_x86_64=("https://dl.teamviewer.com/download/linux/version_${pkgver%%.*}x/teamviewer_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
    
      31source_armv7h=("https://dl.teamviewer.com/download/linux/version_${pkgver%%.*}x/teamviewer_${pkgver}_armhf.deb")
    
      32source_aarch64=("https://dl.teamviewer.com/download/linux/version_${pkgver%%.*}x/teamviewer_${pkgver}_arm64.deb")
    
      33sha256sums_x86_64=('165b0c6ce8a910b31187f9611be62fa848e9c1331853311b9ac9332dc28e8e2b')
    
      34sha256sums_armv7h=('a9890eca2b6f44d180331479a847869bc28672eea1fbf6c5ea560d9947289d8b')
    
      35sha256sums_aarch64=('d7d7c9bae91b3c552696736445e74580019ae0e063131d52190e2856dae6ba96')
    
      36
    
      37prepare() {
    
      38	warning "If the install fails, you need to uninstall previous major version of Teamviewer"
    
      39	[ -d data ] && rm -rf data
    
      40	mkdir data
    
      41	cd data
    
      42	for datatar in ../data.tar.*; do
    
      43		msg2 "Unpacking $datatar"
    
      44		tar -xf $datatar
    
      45	done
    
      46	sed -i '/function CheckQtQuickControls()/{N;a ls /usr/lib/qt/qml/QtQuick/Controls/qmldir &>/dev/null && return # ArchLinux
    
      47}' ./opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/script/teamviewer_setup || msg2 "Patching CheckQtQuickControls failed! Contact maintainer"
    
      48	msg2 "Running teamviewer_setup checklibs"
    
      49	./opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/script/teamviewer_setup checklibs \
    
      50    || msg2 "teamviewer_setup checklibs failed, contact maintainer with /tmp/teamviewerTARLibCheck/DependencyCheck.log" # Currently it always exits 0
    
      51}
    
      52
    
      53package() {
    
      54	# Install
    
      55	warning "If the install fails, you need to uninstall previous major version of Teamviewer"
    
      56	cp -dr --no-preserve=ownership ./data/{etc,opt,usr,var} "${pkgdir}"/
    
      57
    
      58	# Additional files
    
      59	#rm "${pkgdir}"/opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/xdg-utils/xdg-email
    
      60	rm -rf "${pkgdir}"/etc/apt
    
      61	install -D -m0644 "${pkgdir}"/opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/script/teamviewerd.service \
    
      62		"${pkgdir}"/usr/lib/systemd/system/teamviewerd.service
    
      63	install -d -m0755 "${pkgdir}"/usr/{share/applications,share/licenses/teamviewer}
    
      64	ln -s /opt/teamviewer/License.txt \
    
      65		"${pkgdir}"/usr/share/licenses/teamviewer/LICENSE
    
      66	if [ "$CARCH" = "x86_64" ] && [ -f "${pkgdir}/opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/script/libdepend" ]; then
    
      67		msg2 "Removing libdepend to ditch lib32 dependencies"
    
      68		rm "${pkgdir}/opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/script/libdepend"
    
      69	fi
    
      70	# Uncomment to use system's native libraries. This can save around 150MiB of disk space
    
      71	#rm -rf "${pkgdir}"/opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/RTlib
    
      72}
    
      73

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-06-19 19:07
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 pkgname=teamviewer
-pkgver=15.78.3
+pkgver=15.79.4
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='All-In-One Software for Remote Support and Online Meetings'
 arch=('x86_64' 'armv7h' 'aarch64')
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@
 source_x86_64=("https://dl.teamviewer.com/download/linux/version_${pkgver%%.*}x/teamviewer_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
 source_armv7h=("https://dl.teamviewer.com/download/linux/version_${pkgver%%.*}x/teamviewer_${pkgver}_armhf.deb")
 source_aarch64=("https://dl.teamviewer.com/download/linux/version_${pkgver%%.*}x/teamviewer_${pkgver}_arm64.deb")
-sha256sums_x86_64=('c2b98b22bf2a34bbdf5b930c8fa7da17fba195d83d0e3f9e0e695c9043aa9e6a')
-sha256sums_armv7h=('ccab750a5783dbbf7f93ee5bc80c7c4910302c9553c8e01553cb842a1ab5fe37')
-sha256sums_aarch64=('4403d3c43b3a8dc31aafbe0cdb9fa3fe0cc8b7407526717e98e55138ef7c8749')
+sha256sums_x86_64=('165b0c6ce8a910b31187f9611be62fa848e9c1331853311b9ac9332dc28e8e2b')
+sha256sums_armv7h=('a9890eca2b6f44d180331479a847869bc28672eea1fbf6c5ea560d9947289d8b')
+sha256sums_aarch64=('d7d7c9bae91b3c552696736445e74580019ae0e063131d52190e2856dae6ba96')
 
 prepare() {
 	warning "If the install fails, you need to uninstall previous major version of Teamviewer"

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	LOW	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	LOW	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	LOW	2
2026-07-19 15:11:12	LOW	2
2026-06-19 19:07:35	CLEAN	2
2026-06-18 18:04:49	CLEAN	2
2026-06-18 16:11:54	LOW	1