yandex-music-beta

maintainer ChillYarok · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
MEDIUM
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Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from a non-whitelisted, non-standard host (S3 on yandex.net) which could be swapped to deliver malicious code, though it is plausibly an official Yandex release.

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:25 source=("https://music-desktop-application.s3.yandex.net/stable/Yandex_Music_amd64_${pkgver}.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 from a non-whitelisted, non-standard host (S3 on yandex.net) which could be swapped to deliver malicious code, though it is plausibly an official Yandex release.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Yarok
2# contributor: dmitrysvd
3pkgname=yandex-music-beta
4pkgver=5.107.0
5pkgrel=1
6pkgdesc="Official Yandex Music App for Linux (beta release)"
7arch=('x86_64')
8url="https://music.yandex.ru/download/"
9license=('proprietary')
10depends=(
11 gtk3
12 libnotify
13 nss
14 libxss
15 libxtst
16 xdg-utils
17 at-spi2-core
18 util-linux-libs
19 libsecret
20)
21optdepends=(
22 libappindicator-gtk3
23)
24options=('!strip')
25source=("https://music-desktop-application.s3.yandex.net/stable/Yandex_Music_amd64_${pkgver}.deb")
26sha256sums=('1fb5ae52e22609a3d7de403f50f851a0677186c0302a8abe04ebd3e188780833')
27
28package() {
29 tar -xf data.tar.xz --directory "${pkgdir}"
30
31 # Remove Cyrillic from the path
32 mv "${pkgdir}/opt/Яндекс Музыка" "${pkgdir}/opt/yandex-music"
33 local_desktop="${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/yandexmusic.desktop"
34
35 sed -i -e 's|/opt/Яндекс Музыка|/opt/yandex-music|g' \
36 -e 's|Categories=Audio;|Categories=AudioVideo;Audio;|g' \
37 -e 's|Exec="/opt/yandex-music/yandexmusic"|Exec="/opt/yandex-music/yandexmusic" --gtk-version=3|' \
38 "$local_desktop"
39}
40

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