mesasdk

maintainer joelongjiamian · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt SDK tarball from a university-hosted personal URL, which is not on a standard code forge, but the source is a legitimate academic project host and the checksum is verified; the worst case of a swapped source is limited to supply-chain risk of a prebuilt binary, but the context suggests official project infrastructure.

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 SDK tarball from a university-hosted personal URL, which is not on a standard code forge, but the source is a legitimate academic project host and the checksum is verified; the worst case of a swapped source is limited to supply-chain risk of a prebuilt binary, but the context suggests official project infrastructure.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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=("http://user.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/resource/download/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-x86_64-linux-${pkgver}.tar.gz")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Original author: Josiah Schwab <jschwab at gmail dot com>
    
      2# Maintainer: Josiah Schwab <jschwab at gmail dot com>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=mesasdk
    
      5pkgdesc="Software development kit for use with the MESA stellar evolution code"
    
      6pkgver=23.7.3
    
      7pkgrel=1
    
      8epoch=1
    
      9arch=('x86_64')
    
      10url="http://user.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/static.php?ref=mesasdk"
    
      11provides=('mesasdk')
    
      12depends=('binutils' 'make' 'perl' 'libx11' 'zlib' 'tcsh' 'glibc')
    
      13install=mesasdk.install
    
      14source=("http://user.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/resource/download/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-x86_64-linux-${pkgver}.tar.gz")
    
      15sha1sums=('e8930565f7bed92b104aeee9186649e4f85d17e0')
    
      16options=(staticlibs !strip)
    
      17
    
      18package() {
    
      19  mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/opt
    
      20  tar --extract --file ${pkgname}-x86_64-linux-${pkgver}.tar.gz --directory ${pkgdir}/opt
    
      21
    
      22  # get rid of the old .regen_headers
    
      23  rm -f ${pkgdir}/opt/mesasdk/.regen_headers
    
      24}
    
      25
    
      26

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	LOW	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	LOW	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	LOW	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	LOW	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	2