yandex-browser

maintainer labaman · 49 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt .deb binary from a non-whitelisted host (repo.yandex.ru), which is not inherently malicious but presents a supply-chain risk if the host were compromised or the download redirected, as the binary is not built from source and could be silently replaced.

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=("${pkgname}-${_pkgver}.deb::https://repo.yandex.ru/yandex-browser/deb/pool/main/y/yandex-${_pkgname}/yandex-${_pkgname}_${_pkgver}_amd64.deb")

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt .deb binary from a non-whitelisted host (repo.yandex.ru), which is not inherently malicious but presents a supply-chain risk if the host were compromised or the download redirected, as the binary is not built from source and could be silently replaced.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Mikhail Velichko  <efklid@gmail.com>
    
      2
    
      3_pkgname=browser-stable
    
      4pkgname=yandex-browser
    
      5pkgver=26.4.1.1110
    
      6_pkgver=26.4.1.1110-1
    
      7pkgrel=1
    
      8#epoch=1
    
      9
    
      10pkgdesc="The web browser from Yandex.
    
      11 Yandex Browser is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier."
    
      12arch=("x86_64")
    
      13url='https://browser.yandex.com/'
    
      14license=("custom:yandex-browser")
    
      15categories=("network")
    
      16provides=(yandex-browser)
    
      17conflicts=("yandex-browser" "yandex-browser-stable" "yandex-browser-corporate")
    
      18
    
      19depends=("binutils" "ttf-liberation" "jq" "alsa-lib" "at-spi2-atk" "curl" "dbus" "expat" "libcups" "mesa" "gtk4" "nss" "squashfs-tools" "wget" "xdg-utils"
    
      20"vulkan-icd-loader" "libxcomposite")
    
      21
    
      22optdepends=(
    
      23    "speech-dispatcher" 
    
      24    "gstreamer-meta"
    
      25    "cryptopro-csp-k1"
    
      26)
    
      27
    
      28source=("${pkgname}-${_pkgver}.deb::https://repo.yandex.ru/yandex-browser/deb/pool/main/y/yandex-${_pkgname}/yandex-${_pkgname}_${_pkgver}_amd64.deb")
    
      29sha256sums=("27c8570c68a5e1b475304aaa4e8accefbc21e150b644a9cbc998ed32d952c8ba")
    
      30install=yandex-browser.install
    
      31
    
      32prepare() {
    
      33    tar -xf data.tar.xz
    
      34}
    
      35
    
      36package() {
    
      37    cp -dr --no-preserve=ownership opt usr "${pkgdir}"/
    
      38# The stable version uses the "browser" folder in /opt/yandex. ${_pkgname} cannot be used in this section for the stable branch 
    
      39#    install -D -m0644 "${pkgdir}"/opt/yandex/browser/product_logo_128.png "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/pixmaps/${pkgname}.png
    
      40    chmod 4755 "${pkgdir}"/opt/yandex/browser/yandex_browser-sandbox
    
      41    # Fix duplicate menu entry: NoDisplay=true belongs in [Desktop Entry], not in a desktop action section
    
      42    sed -i '/^\[Desktop Entry\]/a NoDisplay=true' \
    
      43        "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/applications/ru.yandex.desktop.browser.desktop
    
      44}
    
      45

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	MEDIUM	2