hdsentinel_gui

LOW
maintainer toxin 3 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The package downloads prebuilt GUI binaries from the official project domain hdsentinel.com, which is plausibly the vendor's own release infrastructure; despite the non-whitelisted host, the source is verifiable and matches the project, and the installed files are consistent with a legitimate application bundle.

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 prebuilt GUI binaries from the official project domain hdsentinel.com, which is plausibly the vendor's own release infrastructure; despite the non-whitelisted host, the source is verifiable and matches the project, and the installed files are consistent with a legitimate application bundle.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:13 source_i686=(hdsentinel_gui32bit.tar.gz::https://www.hdsentinel.com/hdslin/hdsentinel_gui32bit.tar.gz)

PKGBUILD

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1# Maintainer: Zoltán Guba <zoltan.guba@gubamm.hu>
2# Contributor: Gregory25 <hegedusgergomka@gmail.com>
3# Contributor: János Illés <ijanos@gmail.com>
4
5pkgname=hdsentinel_gui
6pkgver=2.0.0
7pkgrel=4
8pkgdesc="A freeware, closed source, SMART analysis tool with GUI"
9arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
10url="http://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_sentinel_linux_gui.php"
11license=('unknown')
12depends=(gtk2 hdsentinel)
13source_i686=(hdsentinel_gui32bit.tar.gz::https://www.hdsentinel.com/hdslin/hdsentinel_gui32bit.tar.gz)
14md5sums_i686=('9be70938647a465296be0b8b9c2d2349')
15source_x86_64=(hdsentinel_gui64bit.tar.gz::https://www.hdsentinel.com/hdslin/hdsentinel_gui64bit.tar.gz)
16md5sums_x86_64=('898d05f8bb9a010d64dcb5b1f907b7ff')
17
18package() {
19 cd $srcdir/HDSentinel_GUI
20 bsdtar -xf "HDSentinel_GUI.zip"
21 sed -i 's/\/usr\/share\/bin/\/usr\/bin/' HDSentinel_GUI/Hard_Disk_Sentinel_GUI.desktop
22 install -m755 -D "HDSentinel_GUI/HDSentinel_GUI" $pkgdir/usr/bin/HDSentinel_GUI || return 1
23# install -m755 -D "HDSentinel_GUI/HDSentinel" $pkgdir/usr/bin/HDSentinel || return 1
24 install -m644 -D "HDSentinel_GUI/HDSentinel_GUI.ico" $pkgdir/usr/share/icons/HDSentinel_GUI.ico || return 1
25 install -m644 -D "HDSentinel_GUI/Hard_Disk_Sentinel_GUI.desktop" $pkgdir/usr/share/applications/Hard_Disk_Sentinel_GUI.desktop || return 1
26 install -m644 -D "readme" $pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname/readme || return 1
27 install -m644 -D "version" $pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname/version || return 1
28 cd $pkgdir/usr/bin
29 ln -s /usr/bin/hdsentinel HDSentinel
30}
31
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Scan history

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

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