gsc

LOW
maintainer pozar87 0 votes scanned 2026-11-02 00:26:00.633185
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Why flagged

The package downloads a catalog data archive from a non-whitelisted but legitimate academic/research host (CDS at Strasbourg) and builds a small executable from source; the data and binary are part of the official GSC project, and the worst case of a source swap is data corruption, not code execution.

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 catalog data archive from a non-whitelisted but legitimate academic/research host (CDS at Strasbourg) and builds a small executable from source; the data and binary are part of the official GSC project, and the worst case of a source swap is data corruption, not code execution.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:12 source=("http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/nph-Cat/tar.gz?bincats/GSC_${pkgver}"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Łukasz Pożarlik <lpozarlik@gmail.com>
2
3pkgname=gsc
4pkgver=1.2
5pkgrel=5
6pkgdesc="All-sky catalog of positions and magnitudes for ~19 million stars and other objects"
7url=""http://gsss.stsci.edu/Catalogs/GSC/GSC1/GSC1.htm
8license=(GPL2)
9arch=(any)
10depends=()
11makedepends=(cmake)
12source=("http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/nph-Cat/tar.gz?bincats/GSC_${pkgver}"
13 "gsc.sh")
14sha256sums=('SKIP'
15 '59387f8ab62f582465ea97e9b586cccb5f0432f9f8158774ac66030e1bb911f8')
16
17build() {
18 GSCBIN=/usr/share/GSC/bin
19 GSCDAT=/usr/share/GSC
20 cd ${srcdir}/src
21 make clean
22 make
23}
24
25package() {
26 cd ${srcdir}
27 for file in $(find [NS]* -type f); do
28 install -v -m 644 -D ${file} "${pkgdir}/usr/share/GSC/${file#source/}"
29 done
30 install -v -m 755 -D src/gsc.exe "${pkgdir}/usr/share/GSC/bin/gsc"
31 install -v -m 644 -D bin/regions.bin "${pkgdir}/usr/share/GSC/bin/regions.bin"
32 install -v -m 644 -D bin/regions.ind "${pkgdir}/usr/share/GSC/bin/regions.ind"
33 install -v -m 644 -D gsc.sh "${pkgdir}/etc/profile.d/gsc.sh"
34}
35

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