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maintainer adrien1018 6 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      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

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-12 00:25
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-17 00:27
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 # Contributor: Roni Choudhury <aichoudh@gmail.com>
 
 pkgname=pin
-pkgver=4.2
-_pkgver=4.2-99776-g21d818fa2
+pkgver=4.3.1
+_pkgver=4.3-99850-gce5652921
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="A tool for the dynamic instrumentation of programs"
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 options=('!strip' 'staticlibs')
 source=("http://software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/pintool/downloads/${pkgname}-external-${_pkgver}-gcc-linux.tar.gz"
         "pin.sh")
-sha256sums=('194a2cec51678203452ece0d9e8cbb1819eb6e1221f0341091c49248f384d869'
+sha256sums=('74c68d5abbb51a5bf213287491e8bd39c3a59799991c3b7237f9b9da67a4bb5e'
             '7198073c94e785cbd9002cdd174ab3bb1d28cc4e26626905c12173ad31ae82fc')
 
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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 01:24:32	Medium	1
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