oracle-instantclient-basic

MEDIUM

maintainer Malvineous 33 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt binary (Oracle Instant Client) from Oracle's official domain but the URL path includes variables and the host, while legitimate, is not on standard whitelists; however, the checksums are provided and it's a known vendor, reducing risk from arbitrary code execution but still posing a supply-chain risk if the source 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:35 "https://download.oracle.com/otn_software/linux/instantclient/${_urlver}/${_pkgname}-linux.x64-${pkgver}${_pkgver_vendor_suffix}.zip")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt binary (Oracle Instant Client) from Oracle's official domain but the URL path includes variables and the host, while legitimate, is not on standard whitelists; however, the checksums are provided and it's a known vendor, reducing risk from arbitrary code execution but still posing a supply-chain risk if the source were compromised.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Contributor: Adam Nielsen <malvineous@shikadi.net>
    
      2# Contributor: Vitaliy Berdinskikh ur6lad[at]archlinux.org.ua
    
      3# Contributor: Andrea Agosti <cifvts@gmail.com>
    
      4# Contributor: Charles Clement <caratorn@gmail.com>
    
      5# Contributor: Geraldo Augusto Vecchiato <geraldoav@gmail.com>
    
      6# Maintainer: Adam Nielsen <malvineous@shikadi.net>
    
      7
    
      8# This package is also available as a Pacman repo, to simplify upgrades.
    
      9# Add the following lines to the end of /etc/pacman.conf:
    
      10#
    
      11# [oracle]
    
      12# SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
    
      13# Server = http://linux.shikadi.net/arch/$repo/$arch/
    
      14#
    
      15# Then run `pacman -Sy` then `pacman -S oracle-instantclient-basic`
    
      16
    
      17_pkgname=instantclient-basic
    
      18pkgname=oracle-${_pkgname}
    
      19pkgver=23.26.3.0.0
    
      20_pkgver_vendor_suffix=
    
      21_urlver=2326300
    
      22_unzippath=instantclient_23_26
    
      23pkgrel=1
    
      24pkgdesc="Light replacement for the Oracle client (files to run OCI, OCCI and JDBC-OCI programs)"
    
      25arch=('x86_64')
    
      26url="https://www.oracle.com/at/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html"
    
      27license=('custom:OTN')
    
      28depends=('gcc-libs' 'libaio')
    
      29replaces=('instantclient-basic' 'instantclient-basiclite')
    
      30options=(!strip)
    
      31
    
      32# These are the only files we want to include in the source package
    
      33source=(LICENSE
    
      34        oracle.sh
    
      35        "https://download.oracle.com/otn_software/linux/instantclient/${_urlver}/${_pkgname}-linux.x64-${pkgver}${_pkgver_vendor_suffix}.zip")
    
      36md5sums=('2d62e22e4f2d7e6d220fafde0f692a7d'
    
      37         '784005aa31cb56bb2303179d98fccd8e'
    
      38         '452fa5123bf3f912517a9249bed5ad40')
    
      39sha256sums=('f904a30b07ddf7806a33620f93b94c3d315154d26a371ece48695bb3555064a2'
    
      40            '36b5ab97950f1667403dd9b59c3cad25d8f9e457702feaece835d1bff7c971c9'
    
      41            'fce485361332927f8328ea4b68d98968c6b0ea124e62470de8c9d0cef880130e')
    
      42
    
      43package() {
    
      44	cd "$srcdir/${_unzippath}/"
    
      45	install -d "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
    
      46	install -d "$pkgdir/usr/lib"
    
      47	install -m 755 -t "$pkgdir/usr/bin" adrci genezi uidrvci
    
      48	# Copy files but not symlinks
    
      49	install -m 755 -t "$pkgdir/usr/lib" `find . -type f -name '*.so*'`
    
      50	install -m 644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/lib" *.jar
    
      51
    
      52	# Copy across the script to set environment variables
    
      53	install -Dm755 "$srcdir/oracle.sh" "$pkgdir/etc/profile.d/oracle.sh"
    
      54
    
      55	# create required symlinks
    
      56	cd "$pkgdir/usr/lib" || return 1
    
      57	local lib link
    
      58	for lib in *.so*; do
    
      59		link=$lib
    
      60		while [[ ${link#*.} != so ]]; do
    
      61			link=${link%.*}
    
      62			ln -s $lib $link
    
      63		done
    
      64	done
    
      65
    
      66	install -Dm644 "$srcdir/LICENSE" \
    
      67		"$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE" || return 1
    
      68}
    
      69

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-08 00:18
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-17 00:27
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@
 
 _pkgname=instantclient-basic
 pkgname=oracle-${_pkgname}
-pkgver=23.26.2.0.0
+pkgver=23.26.3.0.0
 _pkgver_vendor_suffix=
-_urlver=2326200v2
+_urlver=2326300
 _unzippath=instantclient_23_26
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Light replacement for the Oracle client (files to run OCI, OCCI and JDBC-OCI programs)"
@@ -35,10 +35,10 @@
         "https://download.oracle.com/otn_software/linux/instantclient/${_urlver}/${_pkgname}-linux.x64-${pkgver}${_pkgver_vendor_suffix}.zip")
 md5sums=('2d62e22e4f2d7e6d220fafde0f692a7d'
          '784005aa31cb56bb2303179d98fccd8e'
-         'b89085f179e934ed74551f4b71ddae10')
+         '452fa5123bf3f912517a9249bed5ad40')
 sha256sums=('f904a30b07ddf7806a33620f93b94c3d315154d26a371ece48695bb3555064a2'
             '36b5ab97950f1667403dd9b59c3cad25d8f9e457702feaece835d1bff7c971c9'
-            '4c17d54d57db68d7af54009e99e9871a9f068ca93cbf4d81f1a6606f5f28ea05')
+            'fce485361332927f8328ea4b68d98968c6b0ea124e62470de8c9d0cef880130e')
 
 package() {
 	cd "$srcdir/${_unzippath}/"

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
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
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Medium	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Medium	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Medium	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Medium	2
2026-09-08 15:17:32	Medium	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Medium	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Medium	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Medium	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Medium	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Medium	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Medium	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Medium	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Medium	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Medium	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Medium	2