voix

LOW

maintainer daedaevibin 2 votes scanned 2026-10-06 00:13:36.889724

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Why flagged

The package installs a legitimate privilege escalation tool with setuid root, but it is built from source on official infrastructure and replaces sudo/doas as intended; the privileged install is expected behavior for this software.

Triggered rules

Low AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package installs a legitimate privilege escalation tool with setuid root, but it is built from source on official infrastructure and replaces sudo/doas as intended; the privileged install is expected behavior for this software.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

Medium Privileged / out-of-pacman install (sudoers, setuid, or self-update) privileged_install

The package grants elevated privileges or installs an update path outside pacman: a /etc/sudoers.d rule (often passwordless), a setuid/setgid binary, or a self-update script/service that can fetch and run future code with no checksum verification. The initial install may be verified, but the ongoing privilege + update surface is a real supply-chain / privilege-escalation risk.

PKGBUILD:46 chmod 4755 "$pkgdir/usr/bin/voix"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Dae Euhwa <daedaevibin@ik.me>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=voix
    
      4_pkgname=Voix
    
      5pkgver=4.13.1
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc="A secure privilege escalation tool replacing sudo/doas, using PAM for authentication"
    
      8arch=('x86_64' 'aarch64')
    
      9url="https://github.com/Veridian-Zenith/Voix"
    
      10license=('OSL-3.0')
    
      11depends=('pam' 'libcap' 'libseccomp' 'yaml-cpp')
    
      12makedepends=('cmake>=3.30' 'clang' 'lld' 'ninja' 'pkgconf' 'ccache')
    
      13provides=('sudo' 'doas')
    
      14conflicts=('sudo' 'doas')
    
      15backup=('etc/pam.d/voix' 'etc/voix.conf')
    
      16install=voix.install
    
      17source=("$url/archive/refs/tags/v$pkgver.tar.gz")
    
      18sha256sums=('e7df7e95dfd9cf343d248f3c412b2d0d347e188a0e06335b603e19499494394f')
    
      19
    
      20build() {
    
      21    cd "$_pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      22    # ARCH-triggered: native build for x86_64; cross-compile for aarch64
    
      23    if [ "$ARCH" = "aarch64" ]; then
    
      24        CC=clang CXX=clang++ cmake -B build -G Ninja -Wno-dev \
    
      25            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
    
      26            -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
    
      27            -DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=/etc \
    
      28            -DENABLE_PERMISSIONS=OFF \
    
      29            -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="--target=aarch64-linux-gnu" \
    
      30            -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="--target=aarch64-linux-gnu -std=c++26 -fexperimental-library"
    
      31    else
    
      32        CC=clang CXX=clang++ cmake -B build -G Ninja -Wno-dev \
    
      33            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
    
      34            -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
    
      35            -DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=/etc \
    
      36            -DENABLE_PERMISSIONS=OFF
    
      37    fi
    
      38    cmake --build build
    
      39}
    
      40
    
      41package() {
    
      42    cd "$_pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      43    DESTDIR="$pkgdir" cmake --install build
    
      44
    
      45    chown root:root "$pkgdir/usr/bin/voix"
    
      46    chmod 4755 "$pkgdir/usr/bin/voix"
    
      47
    
      48    mkdir -p "$pkgdir/var/lib/voix"
    
      49
    
      50    ln -sf /usr/bin/voix "$pkgdir/usr/bin/sudo"
    
      51    ln -sf /usr/bin/voix "$pkgdir/usr/bin/doas"
    
      52}
    
      53

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-10-06 00:13:36	Low	2
2026-10-05 00:08:03	Low	2
2026-10-04 00:18:08	Low	2
2026-10-03 00:23:04	Low	2
2026-10-02 00:00:32	Low	2
2026-10-01 00:02:06	Low	2
2026-09-30 00:20:07	Low	2
2026-09-29 00:07:46	Low	2
2026-09-28 00:28:32	Low	2
2026-09-27 00:07:07	Low	2
2026-09-26 00:12:15	Low	2
2026-09-25 00:03:36	Low	2
2026-09-24 00:24:14	Low	2
2026-09-23 00:28:13	Low	2
2026-09-22 00:15:14	Low	2
2026-09-21 00:26:32	Low	2
2026-09-20 00:25:31	Low	2
2026-09-19 00:25:36	Low	2
2026-09-18 00:17:11	Low	2
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Low	2