ar-smileys

maintainer tredaelli · 5 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
LOW
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Why flagged The package downloads a source tarball from archive.org, which is a non-standard host but used here for archival access to an old, unmaintained project; the content is non-executable emoticon images and theme data, posing minimal risk even if compromised.

Triggered rules

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a source tarball from archive.org, which is a non-standard host but used here for archival access to an old, unmaintained project; the content is non-executable emoticon images and theme data, posing minimal risk even if compromised.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)
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:14 source=("https://web.archive.org/web/20120204163000/http://www.ale-re.net/downloads/ar-smiles-1.9b.tar.gz")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Szymon Scholz szymonscholz at gmail dot com
2# Archival package, sources accessible only via archive.org
3
4pkgname=ar-smileys
5_pkgname=ar-smiles
6pkgver=1.9b
7_pkgver=1.9
8pkgrel=2
9pkgdesc="AkiRoss Smileys (for Pidgin and Kopete)"
10url="http://www.ale-re.net"
11arch=('any')
12license=('custom')
13install=${pkgname}.install
14source=("https://web.archive.org/web/20120204163000/http://www.ale-re.net/downloads/ar-smiles-1.9b.tar.gz")
15sha256sums=('94d28cb7059dcbc762627f7365c0657505cd9ed3913fb2d054f2dc65610d574f')
16
17build() {
18 cd "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}-${_pkgver}"
19
20 sed -i "s/^Name=ar-smiles/Name=${pkgname}/" theme
21}
22
23package() {
24 cd "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}-${_pkgver}"
25
26 install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/emoticons/${pkgname}"
27 install -m644 * "${pkgdir}/usr/share/emoticons/${pkgname}"
28 install -Dm644 LICENSE "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
29}
30
31# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
32

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

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