tracktion-waveform-9

maintainer rhysperry111 · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from cdn.tracktion.com, which is the official Tracktion CDN (a legitimate vendor distribution channel for Waveform DAW). The host is not unofficial or personal — Tracktion Corporation uses this CDN for their official downloads. However, the package installs an opaque binary blob (a prebuilt .deb) without source compilation, which is a standard supply-chain concern for any binary-only AUR package. The md5sums checksum is present but MD5 is cryptographically weak. The extraction and installation logic is straightforward with no obfuscation or suspicious post-install scripts. This is a common pattern for proprietary software AUR packages (similar to spotify, slack, discord, etc.) and the host appears to be the legitimate vendor CDN. The cheaper model's MEDIUM rating is arguably a false positive for a known vendor CDN, but the binary-blob nature with only MD5 verification keeps a residual supply-chain concern. Overall this is borderline clean/medium — the vendor CDN legitimacy pushes it toward clean, but the weak checksum and binary-only nature maintain a low supply-chain 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:19 source=(https://cdn.tracktion.com/file/tracktiondownload/waveform/932/Waveform-installer-64bit-linux-9.3.2.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 cdn.tracktion.com, which is the official Tracktion CDN (a legitimate vendor distribution channel for Waveform DAW). The host is not unofficial or personal — Tracktion Corporation uses this CDN for their official downloads. However, the package installs an opaque binary blob (a prebuilt .deb) without source compilation, which is a standard supply-chain concern for any binary-only AUR package. The md5sums checksum is present but MD5 is cryptographically weak. The extraction and installation logic is straightforward with no obfuscation or suspicious post-install scripts. This is a common pattern for proprietary software AUR packages (similar to spotify, slack, discord, etc.) and the host appears to be the legitimate vendor CDN. The cheaper model's MEDIUM rating is arguably a false positive for a known vendor CDN, but the binary-blob nature with only MD5 verification keeps a residual supply-chain concern. Overall this is borderline clean/medium — the vendor CDN legitimacy pushes it toward clean, but the weak checksum and binary-only nature maintain a low supply-chain concern.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Rhys Perry <rhysperry111@gmail.com>
    
      2# Based on tracktion-waveform aur package from Mathias Buhr <napcode@aparatus.de>
    
      3# Based on waveforum-bundle aur package from Paul B Davis <paul@dangersalad.com>
    
      4# Based on tracktion-7 aur package from Felipe F. Tonello <eu@felipetonello.com>
    
      5# Based on tracktion-6 aur package from boltbuckle <amygdala@cheerful.com>
    
      6
    
      7pkgname=tracktion-waveform-9
    
      8pkgver=9.3.2
    
      9pkgrel=1
    
      10pkgdesc="Audio and MIDI Workstation (DAW)"
    
      11arch=('x86_64')
    
      12url="https://www.tracktion.com/"
    
      13license=('custom')
    
      14depends=('alsa-lib' 'curl' 'freetype2' 'libglvnd')
    
      15optdepends=(
    
      16  'jack: A low-latency audio server'
    
      17  'ladspa-plugins: A set of ladspa plugins'
    
      18)
    
      19source=(https://cdn.tracktion.com/file/tracktiondownload/waveform/932/Waveform-installer-64bit-linux-9.3.2.deb)
    
      20md5sums=('98b466c2b8132d01b1698a3dfa4b7fe8')
    
      21
    
      22package() {
    
      23    tar -x --xz -f data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}"
    
      24    install -D -m 644 "$startdir/TRACKTION_LICENSE" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
    
      25    mv "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/waveform9" "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname"
    
      26}
    
      27

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