scenic-view

maintainer melonion · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The download host jonathangiles.net is the personal site of Jonathan Giles, who is the actual upstream author of Scenic View (the GitHub URL confirms this: github.com/JonathanGiles/scenic-view). This is effectively the official distribution channel for this tool, not a random third-party mirror. The package installs a JAR file (data/bytecode, not a native binary) and a shell launcher script. The JAR is integrity-checked with a sha256sum. While jonathangiles.net is not a major forge, it is the author's own site, making this analogous to many small open-source projects that self-host releases. The risk is low: no native executed binary from an unofficial host, no obfuscation, and the sha256 pinning mitigates silent substitution. The cheaper model's MEDIUM rating is a false positive based on unfamiliarity with the author's self-hosting pattern.

Triggered rules

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 82%): The download host jonathangiles.net is the personal site of Jonathan Giles, who is the actual upstream author of Scenic View (the GitHub URL confirms this: github.com/JonathanGiles/scenic-view). This is effectively the official distribution channel for this tool, not a random third-party mirror. The package installs a JAR file (data/bytecode, not a native binary) and a shell launcher script. The JAR is integrity-checked with a sha256sum. While jonathangiles.net is not a major forge, it is the author's own site, making this analogous to many small open-source projects that self-host releases. The risk is low: no native executed binary from an unofficial host, no obfuscation, and the sha256 pinning mitigates silent substitution. The cheaper model's MEDIUM rating is a false positive based on unfamiliarity with the author's self-hosting pattern.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:9 source=('https://download.jonathangiles.net/downloads/scenic-view/scenicview-21-linux.zip'

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1pkgname=scenic-view
    
      2pkgver=11.0.2
    
      3pkgrel=2
    
      4pkgdesc='A tool for analyzing the scenegraph of a JavaFX application'
    
      5arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
    
      6url='https://github.com/JonathanGiles/scenic-view'
    
      7license=(GPL)
    
      8depends=('java21-openjfx')
    
      9source=('https://download.jonathangiles.net/downloads/scenic-view/scenicview-21-linux.zip'
    
      10        'scenic-view'
    
      11        'scenic-view.desktop')
    
      12sha256sums=('368ce807b4dda6d7422dbfb7bd977d4d18dded6a3a36b27e10912ce5536656d5'
    
      13            '69084d16a2aeb71dc08db67ccfc8d467d0508e7f76a2ba0043312ad534f0cd30'
    
      14            '7d1fb4e5a06a081b604e10acef772e809b0aa6a7c56edbfba8bce8af47cabd96')
    
      15
    
      16prepare() {
    
      17  unzip -o scenicview-linux.zip
    
      18}
    
      19
    
      20package() {
    
      21  install -Dm644 "$srcdir/scenicview/lib/scenicview.jar" "$pkgdir/usr/share/java/scenic-view/scenicview.jar"
    
      22
    
      23  install -Dm755 scenic-view "$pkgdir/usr/bin/scenic-view"
    
      24  install -Dm644 scenic-view.desktop "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/scenic-view.desktop"
    
      25
    
      26  #install -Dm644 org/scenicview/view/images/ui/mglass.png "$pkgdir/usr/share/pixmaps/scenic-view.png"
    
      27}
    
      28

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