yandex-messenger

maintainer bulatovv · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
MEDIUM
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Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt Debian package from a Yandex disk URL, which is an unverifiable and potentially swappable host; while Yandex is a known entity, the use of a direct download link with a complex, non-standard URL pattern and a skipped checksum verification (b2sums present but not checked due to complexity) creates a supply-chain risk if the source were 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:10 source=("${pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.deb::https://downloader.disk.yandex.ru/disk/b8665ce3d94ab63d97acab354faf2d862e38bc5af1f287694ace3a3f31b3bef3/6a6dedd1/fKqInKw3d7bLFOeFnMGnhNWxCpe349obSYmly8cW7zZJ_fniSbaCrlwjQTbvB92IUPUnXitKQ2ltyzIVVtHF0RfdGUpZH039231ae3iQvySr8npumZHI4midPdWhecNq?uid=0&filename=Yandex_Messenger_2.155.0_amd64.deb&disposition=attachment&hash=7bGpeID6q904ZsjE4/ehCmxnCtN1OkUIf5Iszu%2B0hU8Gu1h8chTxFpPyI2je%2BlPrlsg4VIaLrfRKbQetv4dueQ%3D%3D%3A&limit=0&content_type=application%2Fvnd.debian.binary-package&owner_uid=1130000063429726&fsize=73548980&hid=d833151ad80ffb273b072a7a34c673d9&media_type=compressed&tknv=v3&is_direct_zip_experiment=1")
MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt Debian package from a Yandex disk URL, which is an unverifiable and potentially swappable host; while Yandex is a known entity, the use of a direct download link with a complex, non-standard URL pattern and a skipped checksum verification (b2sums present but not checked due to complexity) creates a supply-chain risk if the source were silently replaced.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Albert Fazlyev <albert.fz@yandex.ru>
2pkgname=yandex-messenger
3pkgver=2.155.0
4pkgrel=4
5pkgdesc="Yandex Messenger is designed for communication: send text messages, make audio and video calls in private and group chats, subscribe to and create channels. Communicate with colleagues in a private space."
6arch=('x86_64')
7url="https://yandex.com/support/messenger/install.html"
8license=('custom')
9
10source=("${pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.deb::https://downloader.disk.yandex.ru/disk/b8665ce3d94ab63d97acab354faf2d862e38bc5af1f287694ace3a3f31b3bef3/6a6dedd1/fKqInKw3d7bLFOeFnMGnhNWxCpe349obSYmly8cW7zZJ_fniSbaCrlwjQTbvB92IUPUnXitKQ2ltyzIVVtHF0RfdGUpZH039231ae3iQvySr8npumZHI4midPdWhecNq?uid=0&filename=Yandex_Messenger_2.155.0_amd64.deb&disposition=attachment&hash=7bGpeID6q904ZsjE4/ehCmxnCtN1OkUIf5Iszu%2B0hU8Gu1h8chTxFpPyI2je%2BlPrlsg4VIaLrfRKbQetv4dueQ%3D%3D%3A&limit=0&content_type=application%2Fvnd.debian.binary-package&owner_uid=1130000063429726&fsize=73548980&hid=d833151ad80ffb273b072a7a34c673d9&media_type=compressed&tknv=v3&is_direct_zip_experiment=1")
11noextract=("${pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
12
13depends=('gtk3' 'libnotify' 'nss' 'libxss' 'libxtst' 'xdg-utils' 'at-spi2-core' 'util-linux-libs' 'libappindicator-gtk3' 'libsecret')
14b2sums=('b22f77140bf2ee7e7c70a6ab9e96d45a3b8f568386ddcadb7e57c4e5bd6f57e9cf77276cf737b016aade1148e60af51aaad4ebf153551f725242caa0713528c1')
15
16
17package() {
18 bsdtar -O -xf "${pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.deb" data.tar.xz | bsdtar -C "${pkgdir}" -xJf -
19
20 install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
21 ln -s '/opt/Yandex Messenger/chats' "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/yandex-messenger"
22}
23
24

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-01 09:20
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
url="https://yandex.com/support/messenger/install.html"
license=('custom')
-source=("${pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.deb::https://downloader.disk.yandex.ru/disk/e040bd455687a27677b0d7a0caf6520e7358f651125c374675d7e0cb0914538b/6a6dd1b1/fKqInKw3d7bLFOeFnMGnhNWxCpe349obSYmly8cW7zZJ_fniSbaCrlwjQTbvB92IUPUnXitKQ2ltyzIVVtHF0RfdGUpZH039231ae3iQvySr8npumZHI4midPdWhecNq?uid=0&filename=Yandex_Messenger_2.155.0_amd64.deb&disposition=attachment&hash=7bGpeID6q904ZsjE4/ehCmxnCtN1OkUIf5Iszu%2B0hU8Gu1h8chTxFpPyI2je%2BlPrlsg4VIaLrfRKbQetv4dueQ%3D%3D%3A&limit=0&content_type=application%2Fvnd.debian.binary-package&owner_uid=1130000063429726&fsize=73548980&hid=d833151ad80ffb273b072a7a34c673d9&media_type=compressed&tknv=v3&is_direct_zip_experiment=1")
+source=("${pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.deb::https://downloader.disk.yandex.ru/disk/b8665ce3d94ab63d97acab354faf2d862e38bc5af1f287694ace3a3f31b3bef3/6a6dedd1/fKqInKw3d7bLFOeFnMGnhNWxCpe349obSYmly8cW7zZJ_fniSbaCrlwjQTbvB92IUPUnXitKQ2ltyzIVVtHF0RfdGUpZH039231ae3iQvySr8npumZHI4midPdWhecNq?uid=0&filename=Yandex_Messenger_2.155.0_amd64.deb&disposition=attachment&hash=7bGpeID6q904ZsjE4/ehCmxnCtN1OkUIf5Iszu%2B0hU8Gu1h8chTxFpPyI2je%2BlPrlsg4VIaLrfRKbQetv4dueQ%3D%3D%3A&limit=0&content_type=application%2Fvnd.debian.binary-package&owner_uid=1130000063429726&fsize=73548980&hid=d833151ad80ffb273b072a7a34c673d9&media_type=compressed&tknv=v3&is_direct_zip_experiment=1")
noextract=("${pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
depends=('gtk3' 'libnotify' 'nss' 'libxss' 'libxtst' 'xdg-utils' 'at-spi2-core' 'util-linux-libs' 'libappindicator-gtk3' 'libsecret')

Scan history

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