magicblast

maintainer imjiaoyuan · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-18 00:03:42.021799

MEDIUM

Why flagged Installs a prebuilt binary from ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (NCBI's official FTP server, plausibly the project's own distribution channel), but it is a pre-compiled executable with a single checksum and no further verification; the host is official NCBI infrastructure so risk is low-to-medium rather than high.

Triggered rules

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")

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

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 70%): Installs a prebuilt binary from ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (NCBI's official FTP server, plausibly the project's own distribution channel), but it is a pre-compiled executable with a single checksum and no further verification; the host is official NCBI infrastructure so risk is low-to-medium rather than high.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: imjiaoyuan <imjiaoyuan@gmail.com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=magicblast
    
      4pkgver=1.7.2
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="NCBI MagicBLAST: maps next-generation RNA/DNA reads to a genome or transcriptome"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://ncbi.github.io/magicblast/"
    
      9license=('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
2026-08-18 00:03:42	MEDIUM	3
2026-08-17 00:18:29	MEDIUM	3
2026-08-16 00:03:42	MEDIUM	3
2026-08-15 15:30:38	MEDIUM	3
2026-08-15 00:26:13	MEDIUM	3
2026-08-14 00:03:41	MEDIUM	3
2026-08-13 00:17:07	MEDIUM	3
2026-08-12 01:25:32	MEDIUM	3
2026-08-12 01:22:13	MEDIUM	2