magicblast

LOW

maintainer imjiaoyuan 0 votes scanned 2026-10-02 00:00:32.890515

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt tarball from NCBI's official FTP server, which is a trusted source for this software; the binary is installed directly without obfuscation or remote code execution, and the host, while not whitelisted, is legitimate and specific to the project.

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-2507) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt tarball from NCBI's official FTP server, which is a trusted source for this software; the binary is installed directly without obfuscation or remote code execution, and the host, while not whitelisted, is legitimate and specific to the project.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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=("https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/magicblast/${pkgver}/ncbi-magicblast-${pkgver}-x64-linux.tar.gz")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: imjiaoyuan <imjiaoyuan@gmail.com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=magicblast
    
      4pkgver=1.7.2
    
      5pkgrel=2
    
      6pkgdesc="NCBI MagicBLAST: maps next-generation RNA/DNA reads to a genome or transcriptome"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://ncbi.github.io/magicblast/"
    
      9license=('LicenseRef-Public-Domain')
    
      10depends=('zlib' 'bzip2' 'xz' 'icu' 'libxml2')
    
      11optdepends=('blast+: makeblastdb for building search databases')
    
      12options=('!strip' '!debug')
    
      13source=("https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/magicblast/${pkgver}/ncbi-magicblast-${pkgver}-x64-linux.tar.gz")
    
      14sha256sums=('93301d1816fd87fe64bb48950be82e5bf02a45bea81d63fff78c11e9908f4604')
    
      15_dir="ncbi-magicblast-${pkgver}"
    
      16
    
      17package() {
    
      18    cd "$srcdir/$_dir"
    
      19    # magicblast only. makeblastdb is skipped to avoid colliding with blast+.
    
      20    install -Dm755 bin/magicblast "$pkgdir/usr/bin/magicblast"
    
      21    install -Dm644 LICENSE "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
    
      22}
    
      23

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-10-02 00:00:32	Low	2
2026-10-01 00:02:06	Low	2
2026-09-30 00:20:07	Low	2
2026-09-29 00:07:46	Low	2
2026-09-28 00:28:32	Low	2
2026-09-27 00:07:07	Low	2
2026-09-26 00:12:15	Low	2
2026-09-25 00:03:36	Low	2
2026-09-24 00:24:14	Low	2
2026-09-23 00:28:13	Low	2
2026-09-22 00:15:14	Low	2
2026-09-21 00:26:32	Low	2
2026-09-20 00:25:31	Low	2
2026-09-19 03:30:07	Medium	1
2026-09-19 00:25:36	Low	2
2026-09-18 00:17:11	Low	2
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