vortex-tracker-ii

maintainer Sterophonick · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged A prebuilt Windows binary archive (VT1.0-32.7z) is downloaded from bulba.untergrund.net, an obscure personal/fan site, and its contents are installed and executed via Wine. The md5sum for the archive is provided (d582da62b836928c17127bca26910322), which gives some integrity assurance, but MD5 is weak and the host is not an official vendor mirror or major forge. The wrapper script, desktop file, and icon are all marked SKIP (no checksum verification), meaning those locally-supplied files are unverified. The core concern is the prebuilt Windows executable from an unofficial host: if the binary were swapped on that server, users would execute arbitrary code under Wine. This is a genuine supply-chain risk pattern (unofficial host + prebuilt executed binary), though there is no evidence of active malice. The package appears to be a legitimate ZX Spectrum music tracker (Vortex Tracker II) distributed by its original author at that URL, which somewhat mitigates the concern, but the host remains non-authoritative by AUR standards.

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=(https://bulba.untergrund.net/VT1.0-32.7z

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): A prebuilt Windows binary archive (VT1.0-32.7z) is downloaded from bulba.untergrund.net, an obscure personal/fan site, and its contents are installed and executed via Wine. The md5sum for the archive is provided (d582da62b836928c17127bca26910322), which gives some integrity assurance, but MD5 is weak and the host is not an official vendor mirror or major forge. The wrapper script, desktop file, and icon are all marked SKIP (no checksum verification), meaning those locally-supplied files are unverified. The core concern is the prebuilt Windows executable from an unofficial host: if the binary were swapped on that server, users would execute arbitrary code under Wine. This is a genuine supply-chain risk pattern (unofficial host + prebuilt executed binary), though there is no evidence of active malice. The package appears to be a legitimate ZX Spectrum music tracker (Vortex Tracker II) distributed by its original author at that URL, which somewhat mitigates the concern, but the host remains non-authoritative by AUR standards.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Sterophonick
    
      2pkgname=vortex-tracker-ii
    
      3_pkgname='vortex-tracker-ii'
    
      4pkgver=1.0
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc='PT3 music editor for Windows'
    
      7url='https://bulba.untergrund.net/vortex_e.htm'
    
      8arch=(x86_64 i686)
    
      9depends=('wine' 'winetricks')
    
      10makedepends=('p7zip')
    
      11filename=VT1.0-32
    
      12source=(https://bulba.untergrund.net/VT1.0-32.7z
    
      13        vortex-tracker-ii
    
      14        vortex-tracker-ii.desktop
    
      15        vortex-tracker-ii.png
    
      16        )
    
      17md5sums=('d582da62b836928c17127bca26910322'
    
      18         'SKIP'
    
      19         'SKIP'
    
      20         'SKIP')
    
      21options=(!strip)
    
      22
    
      23prepare() {
    
      24  cd $srcdir
    
      25  mkdir -p vt
    
      26  7z x VT1.0-32.7z -aou -ovt
    
      27}
    
      28
    
      29package() {
    
      30  cd $srcdir
    
      31  install -Dm755 vortex-tracker-ii $pkgdir/usr/bin/vortex-tracker-ii
    
      32  install -Dm644 vortex-tracker-ii.desktop $pkgdir/usr/share/applications/vortex-tracker-ii.desktop
    
      33  install -Dm644 vortex-tracker-ii.png $pkgdir/usr/share/pixmaps/vortex-tracker-ii.png
    
      34
    
      35  mkdir -p $pkgdir/usr/share/vortex-tracker-ii
    
      36
    
      37  cp -r $srcdir/vt/* $pkgdir/usr/share/vortex-tracker-ii
    
      38
    
      39  chmod -R 777 $pkgdir/usr/share/vortex-tracker-ii
    
      40}
    
      41

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