tomo-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer bruce-hill 1 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

This PKGBUILD downloads and installs a prebuilt binary tarball from bruce-hill.com, which is the author's personal domain hosting the Tomo programming language. While the maintainer appears to be the upstream author (same email/domain), the source is still a personal/unofficial host rather than a well-known forge like GitHub releases. The binary is executed code (a compiler) installed directly into the system. A sha256sum is provided, which mitigates accidental corruption but not a deliberate host compromise or key substitution. The double extraction pattern (tar inside package() on an already-extracted srcdir) is unusual but not malicious. The core concern is that a prebuilt binary from a personal domain with no reproducibility guarantee or GPG signature represents a genuine supply-chain risk: if bruce-hill.com is compromised, users would silently install a malicious compiler. This is a textbook medium-severity AUR concern.

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:14 source=("https://tomo.bruce-hill.com/dist/tomo@${_tomo_version}_Linux-${CARCH}.tar.gz")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 80%): This PKGBUILD downloads and installs a prebuilt binary tarball from bruce-hill.com, which is the author's personal domain hosting the Tomo programming language. While the maintainer appears to be the upstream author (same email/domain), the source is still a personal/unofficial host rather than a well-known forge like GitHub releases. The binary is executed code (a compiler) installed directly into the system. A sha256sum is provided, which mitigates accidental corruption but not a deliberate host compromise or key substitution. The double extraction pattern (tar inside package() on an already-extracted srcdir) is unusual but not malicious. The core concern is that a prebuilt binary from a personal domain with no reproducibility guarantee or GPG signature represents a genuine supply-chain risk: if bruce-hill.com is compromised, users would silently install a malicious compiler. This is a textbook medium-severity AUR concern.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# SPDX-FileContributor: Bruce Hill <contact@bruce-hill.com>
    
      2# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Bruce Hill
    
      3# SPDX-License-Identifier: 0BSD
    
      4# Maintainer: Bruce Hill <contact@bruce-hill.com>
    
      5pkgname=tomo-bin
    
      6_tomo_version=2026-03-14
    
      7pkgver="${_tomo_version//-/_}"
    
      8pkgrel=1
    
      9pkgdesc='The Tomo programming language compiler'
    
      10arch=('x86_64')
    
      11url="https://tomo.bruce-hill.com"
    
      12license=('custom')
    
      13depends=('gcc' 'binutils' 'gmp' 'libunistring' 'gc')
    
      14source=("https://tomo.bruce-hill.com/dist/tomo@${_tomo_version}_Linux-${CARCH}.tar.gz")
    
      15sha256sums=('e6389315da8342583666c8968b3407fa8915edfb44641ea7ead057ee20a40d9b')
    
      16package() {
    
      17    cd "$srcdir"
    
      18    mkdir "$pkgdir/usr"
    
      19    tar -xzf "tomo@${_tomo_version}_Linux-${CARCH}.tar.gz" -C "$pkgdir/usr" --strip-components=1
    
      20}
    
      21

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Medium	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Medium	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Medium	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Medium	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Medium	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Medium	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Medium	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Medium	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Medium	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Medium	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Medium	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Medium	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Medium	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Medium	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Medium	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Medium	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Medium	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Medium	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Medium	2
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Medium	2