greatspn-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer steffeno 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from a university personal cloud storage endpoint (datacloud.di.unito.it), which is a WebDAV share rather than an official release channel. The binary is then extracted and installed directly. While a sha256sum is provided (offering some integrity protection against accidental corruption), the host is a personal/departmental cloud share that could be replaced or taken over without any public audit trail. The upstream GitHub repo (greatspn/SOURCES) is the official project, but this .deb is not served from GitHub releases or any verifiable official mirror. Executed native binaries from an unverifiable personal cloud host constitute a genuine supply-chain concern, keeping this at MEDIUM severity.

Triggered rules

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:12 source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://datacloud.di.unito.it/public.php/dav/files/MnWgcYamrHdDXZk/greatspn_3.2-linux_amd64.deb")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from a university personal cloud storage endpoint (datacloud.di.unito.it), which is a WebDAV share rather than an official release channel. The binary is then extracted and installed directly. While a sha256sum is provided (offering some integrity protection against accidental corruption), the host is a personal/departmental cloud share that could be replaced or taken over without any public audit trail. The upstream GitHub repo (greatspn/SOURCES) is the official project, but this .deb is not served from GitHub releases or any verifiable official mirror. Executed native binaries from an unverifiable personal cloud host constitute a genuine supply-chain concern, keeping this at MEDIUM severity.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: steffeno dash etc at protonmail dot com
    
      2pkgname=greatspn-bin
    
      3pkgver=3.2
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="GreatSPN: Graphical Editor and Analyzer for Timed and Stochastic Petri Nets"
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url="https://github.com/greatspn/SOURCES"
    
      8license=('GPL2')
    
      9depends=('graphviz' 'ghostscript' 'java-runtime' 'gcc-libs' 'glibc')
    
      10provides=('greatspn')
    
      11conflicts=('greatspn')
    
      12source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://datacloud.di.unito.it/public.php/dav/files/MnWgcYamrHdDXZk/greatspn_3.2-linux_amd64.deb")
    
      13sha256sums=('70795c575a903c9721fff16ca9ae791b59429fc44a14fbd9bb2167b218deeb00')
    
      14options=(!strip)
    
      15
    
      16package() {
    
      17  ar x "${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb"
    
      18  
    
      19  install -d "$pkgdir/usr"
    
      20  tar -xf data.tar.* -C "$pkgdir/"
    
      21}
    
      22

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Medium	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Medium	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Medium	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Medium	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Medium	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Medium	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Medium	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Medium	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Medium	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Medium	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Medium	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Medium	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Medium	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Medium	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Medium	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Medium	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Medium	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Medium	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Medium	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Medium	2