execstack

maintainer catwell · 12 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The source is a tarball from the maintainer's personal domain, but it contains the project's own source code being built locally; the worst case of a swapped source is limited to code execution during build, which is a normal AUR risk, and the package installs only a single binary built from that source.

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 source is a tarball from the maintainer's personal domain, but it contains the project's own source code being built locally; the worst case of a swapped source is limited to code execution during build, which is a normal AUR risk, and the package installs only a single binary built from that source.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:16 source=("https://files.catwell.info/misc/mirror/software/prelink/prelink-$pkgver.tar.bz2")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Pierre Chapuis <arch@catwell.info>
    
      2
    
      3# Note: prelink has not been maintained for years,
    
      4# but execstack can still be useful so I keep this package.
    
      5
    
      6pkgname=execstack
    
      7pkgver=20130503
    
      8pkgrel=10
    
      9pkgdesc="set the executable stack flag of ELF binaries and libraries"
    
      10depends=(glibc libelf elfutils)
    
      11makedepends=(automake)
    
      12arch=("x86_64")
    
      13url="https://github.com/jwilk-mirrors/prelink"  # was: https://people.redhat.com/jakub/prelink
    
      14license=("GPL-2.0-only")
    
      15conflicts=(prelink)
    
      16source=("https://files.catwell.info/misc/mirror/software/prelink/prelink-$pkgver.tar.bz2")
    
      17sha256sums=("6339c7605e9b6f414d1be32530c9c8011f38820d36431c8a62e8674ca37140f0")
    
      18
    
      19build () {
    
      20    cd prelink
    
      21
    
      22    # fix libelf detection
    
      23    sed -i 's/#include <string.h>/&\n#include <unistd.h>/' m4/libelf.m4
    
      24    autoreconf -fi
    
      25
    
      26    ./configure
    
      27    cd src
    
      28    make execstack
    
      29}
    
      30
    
      31package () {
    
      32    cd prelink/src
    
      33    mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
    
      34    cp execstack "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
    
      35}
    
      36

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