tonelib-bass-drive-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer Versua7 1 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from tonelib.net (the vendor's own website) and installs it directly. While tonelib.net appears to be the legitimate upstream vendor site for ToneLib products, this is still a prebuilt binary from a non-official/non-distro host with no reproducibility guarantee. The sha256sum provides integrity checking against a known-good hash, which mitigates silent substitution to some degree, but the hash could become stale if the vendor silently replaces the file at the same URL. This is a standard pattern for proprietary software packaged in the AUR (similar to many -bin packages), and tonelib.net is the canonical vendor domain. The risk is real but typical for proprietary binary AUR packages — not clearly malicious, just inherently unverifiable compiled code from a third-party host. Medium is appropriate.

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:12 source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://tonelib.net/download/ToneLib-BassDrive-amd64.deb")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 80%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from tonelib.net (the vendor's own website) and installs it directly. While tonelib.net appears to be the legitimate upstream vendor site for ToneLib products, this is still a prebuilt binary from a non-official/non-distro host with no reproducibility guarantee. The sha256sum provides integrity checking against a known-good hash, which mitigates silent substitution to some degree, but the hash could become stale if the vendor silently replaces the file at the same URL. This is a standard pattern for proprietary software packaged in the AUR (similar to many -bin packages), and tonelib.net is the canonical vendor domain. The risk is real but typical for proprietary binary AUR packages — not clearly malicious, just inherently unverifiable compiled code from a third-party host. Medium is appropriate.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintaner: Versua7 <Versua7@gmail.com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname='tonelib-bass-drive-bin'
    
      4pkgver=1.5.0
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="ToneLib Bass Drive – Full power of the legendary drive pedal for the highest string gauges"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8license=('custom')
    
      9url="https://tonelib.net/tl-bassdrive.html"
    
      10depends=('gtk3' 'glib2' 'desktop-file-utils' 'alsa-lib' 'harfbuzz' 'fribidi' 'pango' 'freetype2')
    
      11optdepends=('jack: JACK output')
    
      12source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://tonelib.net/download/ToneLib-BassDrive-amd64.deb")
    
      13sha256sums=('1726d49b588f0b3a8ed55312bd10825036b6f963b8fb8510f29d006f74631cb7')
    
      14
    
      15package () {
    
      16    tar xf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}"
    
      17    install -D -m644 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/tonelib-bassdrive/copyright" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
    
      18}
    
      19
    
      20post_install() {
    
      21	gtk-update-icon-cache -q -t -f usr/share/icons/hicolor
    
      22	update-desktop-database -q
    
      23}
    
      24
    
      25post_remove() {
    
      26	gtk-update-icon-cache -q -t -f usr/share/icons/hicolor
    
      27	update-desktop-database -q
    
      28}
    
      29

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Medium	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Medium	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Medium	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Medium	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Medium	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Medium	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Medium	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Medium	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Medium	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Medium	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Medium	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Medium	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Medium	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Medium	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Medium	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Medium	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Medium	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Medium	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Medium	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Medium	2