oracle-instantclient-jdbc

LOW
maintainer Malvineous 4 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt Oracle JDBC driver from Oracle's official domain (download.oracle.com), which is a legitimate source despite not being on all trust whitelists; the installed files are libraries and licenses, not executable code, and the checksums are provided and valid.

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 package downloads a prebuilt Oracle JDBC driver from Oracle's official domain (download.oracle.com), which is a legitimate source despite not being on all trust whitelists; the installed files are libraries and licenses, not executable code, and the checksums are provided and valid.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:22 source=("https://download.oracle.com/otn_software/linux/instantclient/${_urlver}/${_pkgname}-linux.x64-${pkgver}${_pkgver_vendor_suffix}.zip")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Contributor: Adam Nielsen <malvineous@shikadi.net>
2# Contributor: Vitaliy Berdinskikh <skipper13@archlinux.org.ua>
3# Contributor: Andrea Agosti <cifvts@gmail.com>
4# Contributor: Viliam Pucik <viliam.pucik@gmail.com>
5# Maintainer: Adam Nielsen <malvineous@shikadi.net>
6
7_pkgname=instantclient-jdbc
8pkgname=oracle-${_pkgname}
9pkgver=23.26.3.0.0
10_pkgver_vendor_suffix=
11_urlver=2326300
12_unzippath=instantclient_23_26
13pkgrel=1
14pkgdesc="Additional support for XA, Internationalization, and RowSet operations under JDBC"
15arch=('x86_64')
16url="https://www.oracle.com/at/database/technologies/instant-client/downloads.html"
17license=('custom:OTN')
18depends=(oracle-instantclient-basic=$pkgver)
19replaces=('instantclient-jdbc')
20options=(!strip)
21
22source=("https://download.oracle.com/otn_software/linux/instantclient/${_urlver}/${_pkgname}-linux.x64-${pkgver}${_pkgver_vendor_suffix}.zip")
23md5sums=('d296799d78f9914f4aca4a2fb0bc38b6')
24sha256sums=('8e57710546ebeb03c864882b5f4620ac42ef793c1e72abdcaa277791d2433eac')
25
26package() {
27 cd "$srcdir/${_unzippath}"
28 install -d "$pkgdir/usr/lib"
29 install -m 755 -t "$pkgdir/usr/lib" *.so
30 install -m 644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/lib" *.jar
31 install -Dm644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname" *LICENSE
32}
33

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-08 00:18
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-17 00:27
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
_pkgname=instantclient-jdbc
pkgname=oracle-${_pkgname}
-pkgver=23.26.2.0.0
+pkgver=23.26.3.0.0
_pkgver_vendor_suffix=
-_urlver=2326200v2
+_urlver=2326300
_unzippath=instantclient_23_26
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Additional support for XA, Internationalization, and RowSet operations under JDBC"
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@
options=(!strip)
source=("https://download.oracle.com/otn_software/linux/instantclient/${_urlver}/${_pkgname}-linux.x64-${pkgver}${_pkgver_vendor_suffix}.zip")
-md5sums=('793f2a28f992077e756b16d2ea235bf6')
-sha256sums=('91913fd78fe5445ae491217d92b4ae99a376a9e955e44184b902fa04a5e3bc50')
+md5sums=('d296799d78f9914f4aca4a2fb0bc38b6')
+sha256sums=('8e57710546ebeb03c864882b5f4620ac42ef793c1e72abdcaa277791d2433eac')
package() {
cd "$srcdir/${_unzippath}"

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
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 15:17:32 Medium 1
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

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