gsc

maintainer pozar87 · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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

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      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

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