diffn

LOW
maintainer deepsoul 1 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785
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Why flagged

The package builds from source hosted on the author's personal domain, which is normal for AUR packages; the source is not a prebuilt binary, and the worst case of a swapped tarball is limited to code execution during build, which is already assumed in AUR reviews.

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 builds from source hosted on the author's personal domain, which is normal for AUR packages; the source is not a prebuilt binary, and the worst case of a swapped tarball is limited to code execution during build, which is already assumed in AUR reviews.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:8 source=("http://volkerschatz.com/unix/scripts/diffn.tgz")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1pkgname=diffn
2pkgver=0
3pkgrel=1
4pkgdesc="Efficient comparison of multiple large files"
5arch=(i686 x86_64)
6depends=()
7license=('GPL3')
8source=("http://volkerschatz.com/unix/scripts/diffn.tgz")
9url="http://volkerschatz.com/unix/uware/diffn.html"
10md5sums=("386b3e7d849f80006f1fabcf43c0ab09")
11
12build() {
13 cd "$srcdir"/diffn
14 gcc -o diffn diffn.c
15}
16
17package() {
18 cd "$srcdir"/diffn
19 install -d "$pkgdir"/usr/bin "$pkgdir"/usr/man/man1
20 install -m 755 diffn "$pkgdir"/usr/bin
21 install -m 644 diffn.1 "$pkgdir"/usr/man/man1
22}
23
24

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
2026-11-01 00:21:48 Low 2
2026-10-31 00:07:41 Low 2
2026-10-30 00:29:30 Low 2
2026-10-29 00:13:55 Low 2
2026-10-28 00:06:54 Low 2
2026-10-27 00:23:28 Low 2
2026-10-26 00:12:40 Low 2
2026-10-25 00:20:48 Low 2
2026-10-24 00:14:55 Low 2
2026-10-23 00:02:19 Low 2
2026-10-22 00:13:10 Low 2
2026-10-21 00:12:50 Low 2
2026-10-20 00:10:31 Low 2
2026-10-19 00:03:55 Low 2
2026-10-18 00:06:55 Low 2
2026-10-17 00:21:55 Low 2
2026-10-16 00:12:47 Low 2
2026-10-15 00:28:05 Low 2
2026-10-14 00:06:47 Low 2
2026-10-13 00:23:45 Low 2

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