xlibre-server-common-bin

MEDIUM

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

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Why flagged

This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary package (xlibre-xserver-common-25.0.0.21-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst) from x11libre.net, which is not an official Arch Linux mirror or a widely recognized upstream distribution point. XLibre is a real fork of X.Org (it exists as a project), but the binary is served from a personal/project-controlled host rather than built from source. The package then extracts and installs the binary directly into pkgdir, meaning whatever is in that tarball gets installed as root-level system files (under /usr and /var). A sha256sum is provided, which mitigates substitution attacks somewhat, but does not protect against the host serving malicious content from the start. Since this installs an X server component (a privileged, deeply integrated system binary) from a non-standard third-party host without building from source, this represents a genuine supply-chain risk: if x11libre.net is compromised or the maintainer is malicious, arbitrary code could be executed with elevated privileges on the target system. The medium rating is appropriate.

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:28 source=(https://x11libre.net/repo/arch_based/x86_64/xlibre-xserver-common-25.0.0.21-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst)

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary package (xlibre-xserver-common-25.0.0.21-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst) from x11libre.net, which is not an official Arch Linux mirror or a widely recognized upstream distribution point. XLibre is a real fork of X.Org (it exists as a project), but the binary is served from a personal/project-controlled host rather than built from source. The package then extracts and installs the binary directly into pkgdir, meaning whatever is in that tarball gets installed as root-level system files (under /usr and /var). A sha256sum is provided, which mitigates substitution attacks somewhat, but does not protect against the host serving malicious content from the start. Since this installs an X server component (a privileged, deeply integrated system binary) from a non-standard third-party host without building from source, this represents a genuine supply-chain risk: if x11libre.net is compromised or the maintainer is malicious, arbitrary code could be executed with elevated privileges on the target system. The medium rating is appropriate.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: artist for XLibre <artist4xlibre@proton.me>
    
      2
    
      3_pkgname=xlibre-server-common
    
      4_orgpkgname=xlibre-xserver-common
    
      5pkgname=$_pkgname-bin
    
      6pkgver=25.0.0.21
    
      7pkgrel=1
    
      8pkgdesc="XLibre Official Easy Install Drop in Replacement fork of X.Org Xorg server common files (binary release)"
    
      9arch=(x86_64)
    
      10url=https://x11libre.net/repo/arch_based/x86_64
    
      11license=('LicenseRef-Adobe-Display-PostScript'
    
      12         'BSD-3-Clause'
    
      13         'LicenseRef-DEC-3-Clause'
    
      14         'HPND'
    
      15         'LicenseRef-HPND-sell-MIT-disclaimer-xserver'
    
      16         'HPND-sell-variant'
    
      17         'ICU'
    
      18         'ISC'
    
      19         'MIT'
    
      20         'MIT-open-group'
    
      21         'NTP'
    
      22         'SGI-B-2.0'
    
      23         'SMLNJ'
    
      24         'X11'
    
      25         'X11-distribute-modifications-variant')
    
      26groups=('xlibre')
    
      27options=(!strip)
    
      28source=(https://x11libre.net/repo/arch_based/x86_64/xlibre-xserver-common-25.0.0.21-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst)
    
      29noextract=("${_pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst")
    
      30depends=(xkeyboard-config xorg-xkbcomp xorg-setxkbmap)
    
      31provides=($_pkgname 'xorg-server-common')
    
      32conflicts=($_pkgname 'xorg-server-common')
    
      33
    
      34sha256sums=('ab7b3dd752e5e00e9398316a96f98da9c958183e739522f2cf7f971d1a31cdf7')
    
      35
    
      36package() {
    
      37  tar -xf "${_orgpkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst" -C "${pkgdir}" usr var
    
      38}
    
      39
    
      40

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Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
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