tonelib-easycomp-bin

MEDIUM
maintainer Versua7 0 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 official vendor site for ToneLib products) and extracts/installs it directly. While tonelib.net is the legitimate upstream vendor host, installing a prebuilt binary from any external host carries inherent supply-chain risk — if the host is compromised or the URL is silently updated, arbitrary code could be executed. The sha256sum provides integrity verification against a known-good hash, which mitigates substitution attacks somewhat. The pattern (vendor-hosted prebuilt binary, checksummed, extracted and installed) is standard for *-bin AUR packages and is not unusual or suspicious. The cheaper model's MEDIUM rating is defensible but borderline — this is the normal risk profile for any binary AUR package from a vendor's own download server, not an elevated concern. Keeping MEDIUM is appropriate since it is an executed binary from an external host with no source build option.

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-EasyComp-amd64.deb")
Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 75%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from tonelib.net (the official vendor site for ToneLib products) and extracts/installs it directly. While tonelib.net is the legitimate upstream vendor host, installing a prebuilt binary from any external host carries inherent supply-chain risk — if the host is compromised or the URL is silently updated, arbitrary code could be executed. The sha256sum provides integrity verification against a known-good hash, which mitigates substitution attacks somewhat. The pattern (vendor-hosted prebuilt binary, checksummed, extracted and installed) is standard for *-bin AUR packages and is not unusual or suspicious. The cheaper model's MEDIUM rating is defensible but borderline — this is the normal risk profile for any binary AUR package from a vendor's own download server, not an elevated concern. Keeping MEDIUM is appropriate since it is an executed binary from an external host with no source build option.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Versua7 <versua7@gmail.com>
2
3pkgname='tonelib-easycomp-bin'
4pkgver=2.0.0
5pkgrel=1
6pkgdesc="ToneLib Easy Compressor – Powerful yet simple tool for quick compression"
7arch=('x86_64')
8license=('custom')
9url="https://tonelib.net/plugins/tl-easycomp.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-EasyComp-amd64.deb")
13sha256sums=('bc606bb95f1bdea275bcd81efc7b563ee62e2df62cb37bd265f0facd7287dcca')
14
15package () {
16 tar xf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}"
17 install -D -m644 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/tonelib-easycomp/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)SeverityRules
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
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2026-09-02 00:02:31 Medium 2
2026-09-01 00:11:19 Medium 2
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