tlapbot-bin

MEDIUM
maintainer gameplayer 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary from a personal/unofficial host (tlapbot.chimmie.k.vu) — specifically from a path that looks like a Debian/Ubuntu APT repository dist path, repurposed to serve a raw ELF binary for Arch Linux. The binary is installed directly to /usr/bin and made executable. The checksum is 'SKIP', meaning there is zero integrity verification. The pkgver is derived post-download from the binary's SHA1, which is a creative but ineffective integrity measure (it only tracks changes, does not verify against a known-good value). The host is a personal domain (k.vu subdomain), not an official upstream release host, GitHub releases, or any recognized mirror. This is a textbook supply-chain risk: a compromised or malicious personal host serving an unverified executable binary that gets installed system-wide. The cheaper model's MEDIUM rating is 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:36 "https://tlapbot.chimmie.k.vu/dists/ubuntu/tlapbot"
Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 92%): This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary from a personal/unofficial host (tlapbot.chimmie.k.vu) — specifically from a path that looks like a Debian/Ubuntu APT repository dist path, repurposed to serve a raw ELF binary for Arch Linux. The binary is installed directly to /usr/bin and made executable. The checksum is 'SKIP', meaning there is zero integrity verification. The pkgver is derived post-download from the binary's SHA1, which is a creative but ineffective integrity measure (it only tracks changes, does not verify against a known-good value). The host is a personal domain (k.vu subdomain), not an official upstream release host, GitHub releases, or any recognized mirror. This is a textbook supply-chain risk: a compromised or malicious personal host serving an unverified executable binary that gets installed system-wide. The cheaper model's MEDIUM rating is correct.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Chimmie Firefly <gameplayer2019pl (at) tutamail (dot) com>
2pkgname=tlapbot-bin
3_pkgname=tlapbot-bin
4pkgver=rde9ab909380391fec12063082a836a728f897c11
5pkgrel=1
6pkgdesc='Owncast bot written in Python+Flask, providing channel points and channel point redeems for your owncast stream.'
7
8arch=(
9 'x86_64'
10)
11
12url="https://tlapbot.chimmie.k.vu"
13license=(
14 'GPL3'
15 'no-license'
16)
17
18depends=(
19 'openssl'
20 'glibc'
21)
22
23makedepends=(
24 'pacman'
25)
26
27provides=(
28 'tlapbot'
29)
30
31conflicts=(
32 'tlapbot'
33)
34
35source=(
36 "https://tlapbot.chimmie.k.vu/dists/ubuntu/tlapbot"
37)
38
39sha256sums=(
40 'SKIP'
41)
42
43pkgver() {
44 cd "${srcdir}"
45 echo 'r'"$(sha1sum tlapbot | cut -d ' ' -f 1)"
46}
47
48build() {
49 cd "${srcdir}"
50 ls tlapbot
51}
52
53package() {
54 cd "${srcdir}"
55 mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/bin" 2>/dev/null 3>&2
56 cp -rvL tlapbot "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
57 chmod +x "${pkgdir}"/usr/bin/*
58}
59

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