fix(install): verify release checksum before extracting in install-cli.sh#880
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…i.sh The Linux install script piped the downloaded archive straight into tar with no integrity check. Download the archive and the release's checksums.txt, verify the archive's SHA-256 against the published checksum (failing closed on mismatch), then extract. Guards against corrupted/partial downloads; not a substitute for signature verification against an out-of-band key. Fixes livekit#647
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Summary
install-cli.shpiped the downloaded archive straight intotarwith no integritycheck. This downloads the archive and the release's
checksums.txt, verifies thearchive's SHA-256 against the published checksum (failing closed on a missing or
mismatched checksum), then extracts.
Scope / honest caveat
checksums.txtis fetched from the same release over HTTPS, so this guards againstcorrupted/partial downloads and accidental mismatches — it is not a substitute for
signature verification against an out-of-band key. The stronger follow-up would be to
sign
checksums.txt(e.g. cosign/sigstore via goreleaser) and verify the signaturehere.
I'm happy to do that separately if you'd like to enable signing.
Test
Verified against the v2.16.6 release: the checksum parse + match succeeds on the real
archive, and a tampered archive is correctly rejected.
bash -npasses. (The script isLinux-only — it aborts on macOS — so it relies on
sha256sum, with an added presence check.)Fixes #647
Thanks to @xtreme-sameer-vohra for raising it.