nsight-systems-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer lywel 1 votes scanned 2026-10-02 00:00:32.890515

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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

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-10-02 00:00:32	Medium	2
2026-10-01 00:02:06	Medium	2
2026-09-30 00:20:07	Medium	2
2026-09-29 00:07:46	Medium	2
2026-09-28 00:28:32	Medium	2
2026-09-27 00:07:07	Medium	2
2026-09-26 00:12:15	Medium	2
2026-09-25 00:03:36	Medium	2
2026-09-24 00:24:14	Medium	2
2026-09-23 00:28:13	Medium	2
2026-09-22 00:15:14	Medium	2
2026-09-21 00:26:32	Medium	2
2026-09-20 00:25:31	Medium	2
2026-09-19 00:25:36	Medium	2
2026-09-18 00:17:11	Medium	2
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Medium	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Medium	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Medium	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Medium	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Medium	2