hisat2-bin

LOW
maintainer Chocobo1 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt binary from a university-hosted cloud service, which is not on standard whitelists but is plausibly affiliated with the project; the worst case of a swapped source is limited to code execution from an unofficial binary, but the context suggests it is intended to be the official release.

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 binary from a university-hosted cloud service, which is not on standard whitelists but is plausibly affiliated with the project; the worst case of a swapped source is limited to code execution from an unofficial binary, but the context suggests it is intended to be the official release.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:14 source_x86_64=("https://cloud.biohpc.swmed.edu/index.php/s/oTtGWbWjaxsQ2Ho/download")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Chocobo1 <chocobo1 AT archlinux DOT net>
2
3pkgname=hisat2-bin
4pkgver=2.2.2
5pkgrel=2
6pkgdesc="A fast and sensitive alignment program for mapping sequencing reads"
7arch=('x86_64')
8url="https://daehwankimlab.github.io/hisat2/"
9license=('GPL-3.0-or-later')
10depends=('libgcc' 'libstdc++' 'glibc')
11optdepends=('perl' 'python')
12provides=("hisat2=$pkgver")
13conflicts=('hisat2')
14source_x86_64=("https://cloud.biohpc.swmed.edu/index.php/s/oTtGWbWjaxsQ2Ho/download")
15sha256sums_x86_64=('ae53af930729787a126944f7db34d4065c06f589c4fb05f4cfa9a348cacd5cb4')
16
17
18package() {
19 cd "hisat2-2.2.1"
20
21 install -Dm755 hisat2{,-*} -t "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
22 rm "$pkgdir/usr/bin"/*-debug
23
24 install -Dm644 {MANUAL.markdown,TUTORIAL} -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/hisat2"
25}
26

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