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maintainer adrien1018 · 6 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a source tarball from Intel's official domain, which is plausibly the project's own release infrastructure; despite the static analyzer flagging the host as non-standard, the download is from a legitimate vendor and contains buildable source, not a prebuilt executable, making the risk low.

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-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a source tarball from Intel's official domain, which is plausibly the project's own release infrastructure; despite the static analyzer flagging the host as non-standard, the download is from a legitimate vendor and contains buildable source, not a prebuilt executable, making the risk low.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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=4.2
    
      8_pkgver=4.2-99776-g21d818fa2
    
      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=('194a2cec51678203452ece0d9e8cbb1819eb6e1221f0341091c49248f384d869'
    
      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
2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	LOW	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	LOW	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	LOW	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	LOW	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	2