worldofgoo-gootool

MEDIUM

maintainer maz-1 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from goofans.com, which is a fan/community site rather than an official vendor or well-known mirror. The .deb contains an executable JAR and a shell script (/usr/bin/gootool) that are installed and run on the user's system. While goofans.com is a long-standing World of Goo fan community site and this appears to be a legitimate community tool (GooTool by David C), the source is still a third-party host serving executed binaries with only an MD5 checksum (weak, collision-prone). The PKGBUILD is also quite old (pkgver pattern, bsdtar usage, return 1 style) and the download URL may no longer be active. The supply-chain concern is real but not indicative of malicious intent — it's a community binary from a fan site with no official vendor distribution. This fits the medium category: executed binary from an unofficial/personal host.

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:15 source=(http://goofans.com/download/145/1255/gootool_$pkgver-1_all.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 goofans.com, which is a fan/community site rather than an official vendor or well-known mirror. The .deb contains an executable JAR and a shell script (/usr/bin/gootool) that are installed and run on the user's system. While goofans.com is a long-standing World of Goo fan community site and this appears to be a legitimate community tool (GooTool by David C), the source is still a third-party host serving executed binaries with only an MD5 checksum (weak, collision-prone). The PKGBUILD is also quite old (pkgver pattern, bsdtar usage, return 1 style) and the download URL may no longer be active. The supply-chain concern is real but not indicative of malicious intent — it's a community binary from a fan site with no official vendor distribution. This fits the medium category: executed binary from an unofficial/personal host.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Todd Partridge <toddrpartridge@gmail.com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=worldofgoo-gootool
    
      4_pkgname=gootool
    
      5pkgver=1.0.3.441
    
      6pkgrel=2
    
      7pkgdesc="World of Goo level creator and installer"
    
      8arch=(any)
    
      9url="http://goofans.com/download/utility/$_pkgname"
    
      10license=('custom')
    
      11depends=('java-runtime')
    
      12optdepends=('worldofgoo')
    
      13conflicts=('gootool')
    
      14install="$pkgname.install"
    
      15source=(http://goofans.com/download/145/1255/gootool_$pkgver-1_all.deb
    
      16  application-x-goomod.xml
    
      17  gootool.desktop)
    
      18md5sums=('31579d7bc2526e6bad07e36950b93d11'
    
      19  'a2d4a46c158e5c80bf4ac10b43b4100d'
    
      20  '0461706a2a607fe39b701d3ccbc67b0f')
    
      21
    
      22build() {
    
      23  # Create build directory
    
      24  [ -d $pkgname-$pkgver ] || mkdir $pkgname-$pkgver
    
      25
    
      26  # Extract archive
    
      27  bsdtar -xf gootool_$pkgver-1_all.deb      || return 1
    
      28  bsdtar -xf data.tar.gz -C $pkgname-$pkgver || return 1
    
      29
    
      30  # Bugfix: Startup script only checks for sun jdk, ugly fix, disabling check
    
      31  sed -i '24 s/^    exit 1/#    exit 1/' ${srcdir}/$pkgname-$pkgver/usr/bin/gootool
    
      32}
    
      33
    
      34package() {
    
      35  install -D -m644 "${srcdir}/application-x-goomod.xml" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/mime/packages/application-x-goomod.xml"
    
      36  install -D -m644 "${srcdir}/gootool.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/gootool.desktop"
    
      37
    
      38  # Copy program
    
      39  cp -r ${srcdir}/$pkgname-$pkgver/* ${pkgdir}
    
      40}
    
      41
    
      42

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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
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Medium	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Medium	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Medium	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Medium	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Medium	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Medium	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Medium	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Medium	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Medium	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Medium	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Medium	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Medium	2