nsight-systems-bin

maintainer lywel · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-18 00:03:42.021799
MEDIUM
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Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt .deb binary from a non-whitelisted but plausible NVIDIA host; while the source is official, the unverifiable executable constitutes a supply-chain risk if the host were compromised.

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:26 "https://developer.nvidia.com/downloads/assets/tools/secure/nsight-systems/${_year}_${_month}/$_deb"
MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 90%): The package downloads a prebuilt .deb binary from a non-whitelisted but plausible NVIDIA host; while the source is official, the unverifiable executable constitutes a supply-chain risk if the host were compromised.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Maxime Lewandowski <lywel@lywel.link>
2
3pkgname=nsight-systems-bin
4pkgver=2026.4.1.191
5pkgrel=1
6pkgdesc='System-wide statistical sampling profiler with tracing features (upstream .deb)'
7arch=(x86_64)
8url='https://developer.nvidia.com/nsight-systems'
9license=(LicenseRef-NVIDIA-SLA)
10depends=(
11 dbus fontconfig glib2 glibc libdrm libglvnd libx11 libxcb libxext libxi
12 libxkbcommon libxkbcommon-x11 libxkbfile libxshmfence nspr nss wayland
13 xcb-util-cursor xcb-util-image xcb-util-keysyms xcb-util-renderutil
14)
15optdepends=('cuda: for GPU profiling on the local system')
16provides=("nsight-systems=$pkgver")
17conflicts=(nsight-systems)
18options=(!strip)
19
20_short=${pkgver%.*} # 2026.3.1
21_year=${pkgver%%.*} # 2026
22_rest=${pkgver#*.}; _month=${_rest%%.*} # 3
23_deb=nsight-systems-${_short}_${pkgver}-1_amd64.deb
24
25source=(
26 "https://developer.nvidia.com/downloads/assets/tools/secure/nsight-systems/${_year}_${_month}/$_deb"
27 nsight-systems.desktop
28)
29sha256sums=('8aeaf8c73401ccafb0b9bbe59981a6fcc97a038388462b15ef48ff75458aba19'
30 '31fb773b641c477b0ccd4b6d081ddbb7acf390c1db6233439ad70deb321f7cc5')
31
32package() {
33 bsdtar -xf "$_deb"
34 bsdtar -xf data.tar.*
35
36 install -d "$pkgdir/opt/nvidia/nsight-systems"
37 cp -a "opt/nvidia/nsight-systems/$_short" "$pkgdir/opt/nvidia/nsight-systems/"
38
39 install -d "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
40 ln -s "/opt/nvidia/nsight-systems/$_short/bin/nsys" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/nsys"
41 ln -s "/opt/nvidia/nsight-systems/$_short/bin/nsys-ui" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/nsys-ui"
42
43 install -Dm644 nsight-systems.desktop \
44 "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/nsight-systems-$_short.desktop"
45 sed -i "s|^Exec=.*|Exec=/opt/nvidia/nsight-systems/$_short/bin/nsys-ui|" \
46 "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/nsight-systems-$_short.desktop"
47}
48

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-06-19 19:07
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-18 00:03
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
# Maintainer: Maxime Lewandowski <lywel@lywel.link>
pkgname=nsight-systems-bin
-pkgver=2026.3.1.157
+pkgver=2026.4.1.191
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc='System-wide statistical sampling profiler with tracing features (upstream .deb)'
arch=(x86_64)
@@ -26,10 +26,8 @@
"https://developer.nvidia.com/downloads/assets/tools/secure/nsight-systems/${_year}_${_month}/$_deb"
nsight-systems.desktop
)
-sha256sums=(
- 5ee19712bab10f3f1848493ffe808d1bf540b5c6bdf0e06ac9da867dab28935b
- 31fb773b641c477b0ccd4b6d081ddbb7acf390c1db6233439ad70deb321f7cc5
-)
+sha256sums=('8aeaf8c73401ccafb0b9bbe59981a6fcc97a038388462b15ef48ff75458aba19'
+ '31fb773b641c477b0ccd4b6d081ddbb7acf390c1db6233439ad70deb321f7cc5')
package() {
bsdtar -xf "$_deb"

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
2026-08-18 00:03:42 MEDIUM 2
2026-08-17 00:18:29 MEDIUM 2
2026-08-16 00:03:42 MEDIUM 2
2026-08-15 00:26:13 MEDIUM 2
2026-08-14 00:03:41 MEDIUM 2
2026-08-13 15:26:23 MEDIUM 2
2026-06-19 19:07:35 CLEAN 2
2026-06-18 16:11:54 MEDIUM 1

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