gimp-appimage

LOW

maintainer quest 1 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from GIMP's official download host (download.gimp.org), which is plausibly the project's own infrastructure; despite the non-whitelisted domain, the source is trustworthy and the build process only extracts and repackages the official binary without executing arbitrary remote code.

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 prebuilt AppImage from GIMP's official download host (download.gimp.org), which is plausibly the project's own infrastructure; despite the non-whitelisted domain, the source is trustworthy and the build process only extracts and repackages the official binary without executing arbitrary remote code.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:18 https://download.gimp.org/gimp/v3.2/linux/GIMP-${pkgver}-x86_64.AppImage

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Josh Ellithorpe <quest@mac.com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=gimp-appimage
    
      4_pkgname=gimp
    
      5pkgver=3.2.4
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc="GNU Image Manipulation Program AppImage"
    
      8provides=('gimp')
    
      9conflicts=('gimp')
    
      10arch=('x86_64')
    
      11depends=('fuse2')
    
      12url="https://www.gimp.org/"
    
      13options=(!strip)
    
      14_desktop_name=org.gimp.GIMP.Stable.desktop
    
      15_icon_name=org.gimp.GIMP.Stable.svg
    
      16_filename=GIMP-${pkgver}-x86_64.AppImage
    
      17source=(
    
      18  https://download.gimp.org/gimp/v3.2/linux/GIMP-${pkgver}-x86_64.AppImage
    
      19)
    
      20sha512sums=('f65563b86b9954399e8387eeb982f5ddf41b51eabb081e58314d93ca77614814dfeec2f43ab85e1db5fef0bcd2482a1a9b263410407cb5162306192ac234cb63')
    
      21
    
      22prepare() {
    
      23  cd "${srcdir}"
    
      24  rm -rf squashfs-root
    
      25  chmod +x ${_filename}
    
      26  ./${_filename} --appimage-extract
    
      27  sed -i -e "s|Exec=.\+|Exec=env APPIMAGELAUNCHER_DISABLE=1 DESKTOPINTEGRATION=0 /usr/bin/gimp %U|" squashfs-root/${_desktop_name}
    
      28  sed -i -e "s|TryExec=.\+|Exec=env APPIMAGELAUNCHER_DISABLE=1 DESKTOPINTEGRATION=0 /usr/bin/gimp|" squashfs-root/${_desktop_name}
    
      29  sed -i -E "s:StartupWMClass=org.gimp.GIMP.Stable:StartupWMClass=${_pkgname}:" "squashfs-root/${_desktop_name}"
    
      30}
    
      31
    
      32package() {
    
      33  echo "Starting install"
    
      34  install -Dm755 ${_filename} "${pkgdir}/opt/GIMP/${_filename}"
    
      35
    
      36  echo "Symlinking binary"
    
      37  install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      38  ln -s "/opt/GIMP/${_filename}" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${_pkgname}"
    
      39
    
      40  echo "Installing desktop launcher"
    
      41  install -Dm755 squashfs-root/${_desktop_name} "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${_desktop_name}"
    
      42  echo "Installing icon"
    
      43  install -Dm644 "squashfs-root/${_icon_name}" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps/${_icon_name}"
    
      44}
    
      45

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2026-10-13 00:23:45	Low	2