knife-bin

LOW

maintainer Dominiquini 1 votes scanned 2026-09-26 05:14:08.085534

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt binary from GitHub releases, which is a common but suboptimal practice; however, it comes from the project's official repository with a verifiable checksum, reducing risk.

Triggered rules

Low Few votes, recently uploaded zero_votes_recent

Uploaded within the last 14 days with 2 or fewer community votes — little peer review so far.

Low AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt binary from GitHub releases, which is a common but suboptimal practice; however, it comes from the project's official repository with a verifiable checksum, reducing risk.

PKGBUILD

      1# Maintainer: Rafael Dominiquini <rafaeldominiquini at gmail dot com>
    
      2
    
      3_gitauthor=bl4ckr0ss3
    
      4_gitname=knife
    
      5_appname=${_gitname}
    
      6pkgname=${_appname}-bin
    
      7pkgdesc="A reverse engineer's binary Swiss-army knife in Rust"
    
      8
    
      9pkgver=1.8.2
    
      10pkgrel=1
    
      11_gitversion=v${pkgver}
    
      12
    
      13arch=('x86_64')
    
      14_barch=('x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu')
    
      15
    
      16_ghurl="https://github.com/${_gitauthor}/${_gitname}"
    
      17_ghurlraw="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/${_gitauthor}/${_gitname}/${_gitversion}"
    
      18url=${_ghurl}
    
      19
    
      20license=('MIT')
    
      21
    
      22provides=("${_appname}")
    
      23conflicts=("${pkgname%-bin}")
    
      24
    
      25depends=('glibc' 'libgcc')
    
      26
    
      27options=('!strip')
    
      28
    
      29source_x86_64=("${_appname}-${arch[0]}-${pkgver}.tgz::${_ghurl}/releases/download/${_gitversion}/${_appname}-${_barch[0]}.tgz")
    
      30sha256sums_x86_64=('a67ce2a8314f215dfccec8a5f568c9095efcdb3add275c94e3efc8f0e3b119ed')
    
      31
    
      32
    
      33package() {
    
      34	cd "${srcdir}/" || exit
    
      35
    
      36	install -Dm755 "${_appname}" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${_appname}"
    
      37
    
      38	install -Dm644 "README.md" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/README.md"
    
      39
    
      40	install -Dm644 "LICENSE" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
    
      41}
    
      42

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-23 00:28
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-26 05:14
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 pkgname=${_appname}-bin
 pkgdesc="A reverse engineer's binary Swiss-army knife in Rust"
 
-pkgver=1.8.1
+pkgver=1.8.2
 pkgrel=1
 _gitversion=v${pkgver}
 
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 options=('!strip')
 
 source_x86_64=("${_appname}-${arch[0]}-${pkgver}.tgz::${_ghurl}/releases/download/${_gitversion}/${_appname}-${_barch[0]}.tgz")
-sha256sums_x86_64=('705f1b702d5d14bc042b83d6d12cb6a47d79e2a5f0b3f4f76b6942f3e3b709c8')
+sha256sums_x86_64=('a67ce2a8314f215dfccec8a5f568c9095efcdb3add275c94e3efc8f0e3b119ed')
 
 
 package() {

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-26 05:14:08	Low	2
2026-09-23 00:28:13	Clean	2
2026-09-22 23:39:22	Low	1