orffinder

maintainer imjiaoyuan · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-18 00:03:42.021799

LOW

Why flagged Downloads a prebuilt binary from NCBI's official FTP server (ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov), which is the project's own official infrastructure; checksum is provided and not SKIP'd, so the binary is verifiable and from a trustworthy vendor domain.

Triggered rules

LOW Few votes, recently uploaded zero_votes_recent

Uploaded within the last 14 days with 2 or fewer community votes — little peer review so far.

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 80%): Downloads a prebuilt binary from NCBI's official FTP server (ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov), which is the project's own official infrastructure; checksum is provided and not SKIP'd, so the binary is verifiable and from a trustworthy vendor domain.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:13 source=("ORFfinder-${pkgver}.gz::https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/TOOLS/ORFfinder/linux-i64/ORFfinder.gz")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: imjiaoyuan <imjiaoyuan@gmail.com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=orffinder
    
      4pkgver=0.4.3
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="NCBI ORFfinder: finds Open Reading Frames (ORFs) in a query sequence"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/orffinder/"
    
      9license=('Public Domain')
    
      10depends=('zlib' 'bzip2' 'xz' 'zstd' 'libuv' 'libnghttp2' 'elfutils')
    
      11options=('!strip' '!debug')
    
      12# Single gzipped ELF binary; upstream filename is unversioned.
    
      13source=("ORFfinder-${pkgver}.gz::https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/TOOLS/ORFfinder/linux-i64/ORFfinder.gz")
    
      14sha256sums=('f30a0806b984931a967d8024066a53dbb811035ca14564f36f7f7045a6a509f2')
    
      15noextract=("ORFfinder-${pkgver}.gz")
    
      16
    
      17package() {
    
      18    cd "$srcdir"
    
      19    gunzip -c "ORFfinder-${pkgver}.gz" > ORFfinder
    
      20    install -Dm755 ORFfinder "$pkgdir/usr/bin/ORFfinder"
    
      21}
    
      22

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-18 00:03:42	LOW	3
2026-08-17 00:18:29	LOW	3
2026-08-16 00:03:42	LOW	3
2026-08-15 15:30:38	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-15 00:26:13	LOW	3
2026-08-14 00:03:41	LOW	3
2026-08-13 00:17:07	LOW	3
2026-08-12 01:25:32	LOW	3
2026-08-12 01:22:13	MEDIUM	2