theeram

maintainer shajilkrazy · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from launchpadlibrarian.net (Launchpad's file hosting service, which is Canonical's official PPA/package hosting infrastructure — not a random personal host). However, the package extracts and installs a prebuilt binary (usr/bin contents) without any integrity verification beyond a weak MD5 checksum (no sha256sums, no GPG signature). The binary is executed directly on the user's system. Launchpad librarian URLs are stable and tied to specific file IDs (328067651), making silent substitution unlikely but not impossible. The main concern is: (1) prebuilt binary from an external host installed directly, (2) only MD5 integrity check (collision-vulnerable), (3) no GPG signature verification. This is a genuine medium-risk supply-chain concern — a prebuilt executed binary from an external host with weak integrity checking — though Launchpad is a well-known legitimate hosting service, reducing the probability of active compromise. The cheaper model's assessment is essentially correct.

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:10 source=("https://launchpadlibrarian.net/328067651/theeram_0.9.0_amd64.deb")

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 .deb from launchpadlibrarian.net (Launchpad's file hosting service, which is Canonical's official PPA/package hosting infrastructure — not a random personal host). However, the package extracts and installs a prebuilt binary (usr/bin contents) without any integrity verification beyond a weak MD5 checksum (no sha256sums, no GPG signature). The binary is executed directly on the user's system. Launchpad librarian URLs are stable and tied to specific file IDs (328067651), making silent substitution unlikely but not impossible. The main concern is: (1) prebuilt binary from an external host installed directly, (2) only MD5 integrity check (collision-vulnerable), (3) no GPG signature verification. This is a genuine medium-risk supply-chain concern — a prebuilt executed binary from an external host with weak integrity checking — though Launchpad is a well-known legitimate hosting service, reducing the probability of active compromise. The cheaper model's assessment is essentially correct.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Shajil K Joshy <shajilkrazy@gmail.com>
    
      2pkgname=theeram
    
      3pkgver=0.9.0
    
      4pkgrel=2
    
      5pkgdesc="Malayalam Dictionary based on Olam."
    
      6url="https://nandakumar.co.in/apps/theeram/"
    
      7license=('GPL3')
    
      8depends=('glibc' 'gtk3' 'libnotify' 'libxml2')
    
      9arch=(x86_64)
    
      10source=("https://launchpadlibrarian.net/328067651/theeram_0.9.0_amd64.deb")
    
      11install='theeram.install'
    
      12md5sums=('6217c800260667bb671a290ad0f0f957')
    
      13
    
      14package() {
    
      15	tar xf "$srcdir/data.tar.xz"
    
      16	mkdir "$pkgdir/usr"
    
      17	cp -r "$srcdir/usr/share" "$pkgdir/usr/"
    
      18	cp -r "$srcdir/usr/bin" "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
    
      19}
    
      20
    
      21

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2026-08-03 00:08:14	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	MEDIUM	2
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