world-radio-league-desktop-bin

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

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt proprietary binary .deb from auth.worldradioleague.com (a Supabase storage endpoint for this project) and installs it directly. The checksum is 'SKIP', meaning there is zero integrity verification — any compromise of that host or URL would silently deliver arbitrary code to users. The host is the project's own auth/storage subdomain rather than a well-known package mirror, and the software is closed-source proprietary, so the binary contents cannot be audited. These factors together constitute a genuine supply-chain risk: executed binary from an unverified source with no checksum. This is a real medium-severity concern, not a false positive, though there is no evidence of active malice.

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:31 "world-radio-league-desktop_${pkgver}_amd64.deb::https://auth.worldradioleague.com/storage/v1/object/public/public-uploads/desktop-updates/stable/world-radio-league-desktop_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 82%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt proprietary binary .deb from auth.worldradioleague.com (a Supabase storage endpoint for this project) and installs it directly. The checksum is 'SKIP', meaning there is zero integrity verification — any compromise of that host or URL would silently deliver arbitrary code to users. The host is the project's own auth/storage subdomain rather than a well-known package mirror, and the software is closed-source proprietary, so the binary contents cannot be audited. These factors together constitute a genuine supply-chain risk: executed binary from an unverified source with no checksum. This is a real medium-severity concern, not a false positive, though there is no evidence of active malice.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Meredith V. <delightful.device@pm.me>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=world-radio-league-desktop-bin
    
      4pkgver=0.0.9
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="World Radio League desktop application"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://worldradioleague.com"
    
      9license=('LicenseRef-upstream-proprietary')
    
      10
    
      11depends=(
    
      12  'gtk3'
    
      13  'libnotify'
    
      14  'nss'
    
      15  'libxss'
    
      16  'libxtst'
    
      17  'at-spi2-core'
    
      18  'util-linux-libs'
    
      19  'libsecret'
    
      20  'make'
    
      21  'alsa-lib'
    
      22  'libusb'
    
      23  'lib32-gcc-libs'
    
      24  'java-runtime'
    
      25)
    
      26
    
      27provides=('world-radio-league-desktop')
    
      28conflicts=('world-radio-league-desktop')
    
      29
    
      30source=(
    
      31  "world-radio-league-desktop_${pkgver}_amd64.deb::https://auth.worldradioleague.com/storage/v1/object/public/public-uploads/desktop-updates/stable/world-radio-league-desktop_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
    
      32)
    
      33
    
      34sha256sums=(
    
      35  'SKIP'
    
      36)
    
      37
    
      38package() {
    
      39  cd "${srcdir}"
    
      40
    
      41  # Extract Debian package
    
      42  bsdtar -xf "world-radio-league-desktop_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
    
      43
    
      44  # Extract filesystem contents
    
      45  bsdtar -xf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}"
    
      46
    
      47  # Ensure binaries are executable
    
      48  find "${pkgdir}/usr/bin" -type f -exec chmod 755 {} \; 2>/dev/null || true
    
      49
    
      50  install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}"
    
      51
    
      52  cat > "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE" << EOF
    
      53world-radio-league-desktop is proprietary software.
    
      54
    
      55For licensing terms and usage restrictions, see the upstream developer:
    
      56
    
      57https://worldradioleague.com
    
      58EOF
    
      59}
    
      60

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