ntpsec

LOW

maintainer gdfuego 15 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The source is a tarball from the project's official release host (ftp.ntpsec.org), which is plausibly owned by the project despite not being on a standard whitelist; building from own-source is normal AUR behavior and not inherently dangerous.

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 source is a tarball from the project's official release host (ftp.ntpsec.org), which is plausibly owned by the project despite not being on a standard whitelist; building from own-source is normal AUR behavior and not inherently dangerous.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:18 source=("https://ftp.ntpsec.org/pub/releases/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Gregory Boyce <gregory@auburndaletech.com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=ntpsec
    
      4pkgver=1.2.5
    
      5pkgrel=2
    
      6pkgdesc="Security-hardened Network Time Protocol implementation"
    
      7arch=('i686' 'x86_64' 'armv7h' 'aarch64')
    
      8url="https://www.ntpsec.org/"
    
      9license=('Apache-2.0','BSD-2-Clause','BSD-4-Clause','ISC','NTP','Beerware','BSD-3-Clause','CC-BY-4.0','MIT')
    
      10depends=('avahi' 'libbsd' 'python' 'openssl')
    
      11makedepends=('asciidoc' 'pps-tools' 'w3m' 'binutils' 'asciidoctor')
    
      12optdepends=('gnuplot: for ntpviz'
    
      13            'libevent: for ntpdig'
    
      14            'python-psutil: Optional for ntpviz, allows running with ionice'
    
      15            'ttf-liberation: Improves font quality in ntpviz renderings')
    
      16provides=('ntp')
    
      17conflicts=('ntp')
    
      18source=("https://ftp.ntpsec.org/pub/releases/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
    
      19        "https://ftp.ntpsec.org/pub/releases/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz.asc"
    
      20        use-arch-pool.patch
    
      21        ntpsec.sysusers
    
      22        waf-2.0.27)
    
      23sha512sums=('52f1c993616c5fbadea6732b65949dd2ec5a03d441d48ec2ae415e3bdb1baba06c8d21b2bd3b20c377ef82d06f3e6d5fe7bac961c41e7dadc3d7cbd4c6bf94ab'
    
      24            '991c2983d53cadf906783b0f5567b230745f3d863fc68e1dc57de10811246f3d3e59c3369e9ee563e06d216a0c859e30ad933583f4652ebd3a92bb43bafe30d0'
    
      25            '7edb1d2dd41b135fa489de1802ea9b4079e9cb6556fa6457924bf7363bef7375987b9e4bb6507730ad906199ba55a44103d0655ad1f517b0426083be5b3e218c'
    
      26            'ac4ce13fe88a383382abb92cb34ab231467cbc9dcb8ac8780480d467f295ddf65e217b6415bbadabd8c7ac9832b0fd9058b837946aa2d5dcfd9f3bb81cff6b31'
    
      27            '22c21dfcbf5ed25c25040ab04f62326f271b2b18ff96ca7598dadf68230d21d70cef1c9d7ef56721edbd9c737a56576fd4a9ffac1b00cb93d5c013b8f3a9d97e')
    
      28validpgpkeys=('E57235D22764129FA4F2F4D17F52608ED0E49D76')
    
      29backup=('etc/ntp.conf'
    
      30        'etc/ntp.d/default.conf'
    
      31        'etc/ntp.d/use-pool')
    
      32
    
      33prepare() {
    
      34  cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      35
    
      36  for patch in ../*.patch; do
    
      37    if [ ! -f "$patch" ]; then
    
      38      break;
    
      39    else
    
      40      patch -p1 -i "$patch"
    
      41    fi
    
      42  done
    
      43  cp ../waf-2.0.27 waf
    
      44}
    
      45
    
      46build() {
    
      47  cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      48
    
      49  ./waf configure --prefix /usr --sbindir=/usr/ntpsec/bin --refclock=all \
    
      50      --enable-leap-smear --enable-doc --htmldir=/usr/share/doc/ntpsec
    
      51  ./waf build
    
      52
    
      53  a2x -f text docs/copyright.adoc
    
      54}
    
      55
    
      56check() {
    
      57  cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      58
    
      59  ./waf check
    
      60}
    
      61
    
      62package() {
    
      63  cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      64
    
      65  ./waf install --destdir="$pkgdir/"
    
      66
    
      67  install -Dm 644 etc/logrotate-config.ntpd "$pkgdir/etc/logrotate.d/ntpd"
    
      68  install -Dm 644 build/main/etc/ntpd.service "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system/ntpd.service"
    
      69  install -Dm 644 docs/copyright.text "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/COPYING"
    
      70  install -Dm 644 ../ntpsec.sysusers "$pkgdir/usr/lib/sysusers.d/ntpsec.conf"
    
      71  install -Dm 644 LICENSES/*.txt "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/"
    
      72
    
      73  for configfile in etc/ntp.d/*; do
    
      74     install -Dm 644 "$configfile" "$pkgdir/$configfile"
    
      75  done
    
      76
    
      77  install -dm 700 -g 212 -o 212 "$pkgdir/var/lib/ntp"
    
      78  touch $pkgdir/etc/ntp.conf
    
      79
    
      80}
    
      81

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
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
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Low	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Low	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Low	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Low	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Low	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Low	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Low	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Low	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Low	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Low	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Low	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Low	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Low	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Low	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Low	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Low	2