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maintainer adrien1018 6 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The source is a prebuilt binary tarball from Intel's official domain, which is plausibly the project's own release infrastructure; the worst case of a swapped source would be malicious code execution, but the host is legitimate and the checksums are verified, making this a normal AUR package with low risk.

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 prebuilt binary tarball from Intel's official domain, which is plausibly the project's own release infrastructure; the worst case of a swapped source would be malicious code execution, but the host is legitimate and the checksums are verified, making this a normal AUR package with low risk.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:16 source=("http://software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/pintool/downloads/${pkgname}-external-${_pkgver}-gcc-linux.tar.gz"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Adrien Wu <adrien.sf.wu@gmail.com>
    
      2# Contributor: Fabio 'Lolix' Loli <fabio.loli@disroot.org>
    
      3# Contributor: Jon Eyolfson <jon@eyolfson.com>
    
      4# Contributor: Roni Choudhury <aichoudh@gmail.com>
    
      5
    
      6pkgname=pin
    
      7pkgver=4.3.1
    
      8_pkgver=4.3-99850-gce5652921
    
      9pkgrel=1
    
      10pkgdesc="A tool for the dynamic instrumentation of programs"
    
      11arch=('x86_64')
    
      12url="https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/articles/pin-a-dynamic-binary-instrumentation-tool.html"
    
      13license=('custom')
    
      14depends=('gcc' 'bash' 'lib32-gcc-libs')
    
      15options=('!strip' 'staticlibs')
    
      16source=("http://software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/pintool/downloads/${pkgname}-external-${_pkgver}-gcc-linux.tar.gz"
    
      17        "pin.sh")
    
      18sha256sums=('74c68d5abbb51a5bf213287491e8bd39c3a59799991c3b7237f9b9da67a4bb5e'
    
      19            '7198073c94e785cbd9002cdd174ab3bb1d28cc4e26626905c12173ad31ae82fc')
    
      20
    
      21package() {
    
      22    cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-external-${_pkgver}-gcc-linux"
    
      23
    
      24    # Copy pin executables, etc. to the /opt/pin directory (because pin
    
      25    # uses a non-standard FHS for its stuff).
    
      26    mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/opt/pin
    
      27    cp -r * ${pkgdir}/opt/pin
    
      28
    
      29    # Fix the permissions (they're very broken)
    
      30    chmod -R a=r,u+w,a+X "${pkgdir}/opt/pin"
    
      31    chmod +x "${pkgdir}/opt/pin/pin"
    
      32    find "${pkgdir}/opt/pin" -name pinbin -type f -exec chmod +x {} \;
    
      33    find "${pkgdir}/opt/pin" -name xed -type f -exec chmod +x {} \;
    
      34    find "${pkgdir}/opt/pin" -name pindb -type f -exec chmod +x {} \;
    
      35    find "${pkgdir}/opt/pin/source/tools/Utils" -name 'test*' -type f -exec chmod +x {} \;
    
      36    find "${pkgdir}/opt/pin/source/tools/Utils" -name '*.py' -type f -exec chmod +x {} \;
    
      37
    
      38    # Copy shell script for modifying path.
    
      39    cd "$srcdir"
    
      40    mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/etc/profile.d
    
      41    install pin.sh ${pkgdir}/etc/profile.d
    
      42
    
      43    install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}"
    
      44    cp -r "${pkgdir}"/opt/pin/licensing "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}"
    
      45}
    
      46

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Low	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Low	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Low	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Low	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Low	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Low	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Low	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Low	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Low	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Low	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Low	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Low	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Low	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Low	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Low	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Low	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Low	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Low	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Low	2
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Low	2