buffer

maintainer sanerb · 5 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads the source tarball and patches from the project's official host (hello-penguin.com), which is not on the whitelist but is plausibly the project's own; the source is built locally and installs only a single binary and man page, with no evidence of malicious behavior or unverifiable prebuilt executables.

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 the source tarball and patches from the project's official host (hello-penguin.com), which is not on the whitelist but is plausibly the project's own; the source is built locally and installs only a single binary and man page, with no evidence of malicious behavior or unverifiable prebuilt executables.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:15 source=("http://www.hello-penguin.com/software/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: brent s. <bts[at]square-r00t[dot]net>
    
      2# Bug reports can be filed at https://bugs.square-r00t.net/index.php?project=3
    
      3# News updates for packages can be followed at https://devblog.square-r00t.net
    
      4validpgpkeys=('748231EBCBD808A14F5E85D28C004C2F93481F6B')
    
      5# Contributor: Lex Black <autumn-wind at web dot de>
    
      6# Contributor: M.Carreira <manuel@carreira.com.pt>
    
      7
    
      8pkgname=buffer
    
      9pkgver=1.19
    
      10pkgrel=8
    
      11pkgdesc="Speed up writing tapes on remote tape drives"
    
      12arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
    
      13url="http://www.hello-penguin.com/software.htm"
    
      14license=('GPL')
    
      15source=("http://www.hello-penguin.com/software/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz"
    
      16        "01-debian-patches.all"
    
      17        "02-fedora-patch.all"
    
      18	"${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz.sig"
    
      19	"01-debian-patches.all.sig"
    
      20	"02-fedora-patch.all.sig")
    
      21sha512sums=('4a53163991f2e56e81c7cbd180edbbae9e15bb7a522fa946c1ca351fb85b3e4f4ca6ac4afd3cde852cc407099921e29739d7e30c39b568a75b4be696e1f3e8eb'
    
      22            '1e58d06f27766198c465f42afd4555ac52ddf01305ca60d1c3c6c6b9580de37d2092d7f4daf0054cfd4e9af3857ec756b50e53b2b57fd3717dff03e7fa05da69'
    
      23            '99463d849f5a4c2522cc0e9ac42e080104db57479192ce7d580993d1279cd48540616b482b3ea789bfa3100fb4d179ba9f0290b8ef3c51e3a9587fe9a4afce09'
    
      24            'SKIP'
    
      25            'SKIP'
    
      26            'SKIP')
    
      27
    
      28
    
      29prepare() {
    
      30  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
    
      31  patch -p1 <${srcdir}/01-debian-patches.all
    
      32  patch -p1 <${srcdir}/02-fedora-patch.all
    
      33}
    
      34
    
      35build() {
    
      36  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
    
      37  make
    
      38}
    
      39
    
      40package() {
    
      41  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
    
      42  install -p -m 755 -D buffer ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/buffer
    
      43  install -p -m 644 -D buffer.man ${pkgdir}/usr/share/man/man1/buffer.1
    
      44}
    
      45

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
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