stockfish

LOW
maintainer niklasf 169 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785
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Why flagged

The non-standard host (tests.stockfishchess.org) hosts a neural network evaluation file (.nnue) used as data by the chess engine; it is not executable code and cannot lead to remote code execution, making the risk low despite the untrusted domain.

Triggered rules

Low AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 95%): The non-standard host (tests.stockfishchess.org) hosts a neural network evaluation file (.nnue) used as data by the chess engine; it is not executable code and cannot lead to remote code execution, making the risk low despite the untrusted 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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:24 "https://tests.stockfishchess.org/api/nn/${_net_name}")

PKGBUILD

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1# Maintainer: niklas.fiekas at backscattering dot de
2# Contributor: mark.blakeney at bullet-systems dot net
3# Contributor: Tod Jackson <tod.jackson@gmail.com>
4# Contributor: Özgür Sarıer <echo b3pndXJzYXJpZXIxMDExNjAxMTE1QGdtYWlsLmNvbQo= | base64 -d>
5# Contributor: user6553591 <Message on Reddit>
6# Contributor: P. Badredin <p dot badredin at gmail dot com>
7# Contributor: Justin Blanchard <UncombedCoconut at gmail dot com>
8# Contributor: Auguste Pop < auguste [at] gmail [dot] com >
9# Contributor: SandaruKasa <echo c2FuZGFydWthc2ErYXVyQHlhLnJ1Cg== | base64 -d>
10# Contributor: bagasdotme
11# Contributor: HurricanePootis
12
13pkgname=stockfish
14pkgver=19
15pkgrel=1
16epoch=1
17pkgdesc="A strong UCI chess engine"
18arch=('x86_64' 'i686' 'armv7h' 'aarch64')
19url="https://stockfishchess.org/"
20license=('GPL-3.0')
21depends=('glibc' 'gcc-libs')
22_net_name="nn-1a298aa575a0.nnue" # From EvalFileDefaultName in src/evaluate.h
23source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.zip::https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/archive/sf_$pkgver.zip"
24 "https://tests.stockfishchess.org/api/nn/${_net_name}")
25sha512sums=('49e073b15cf56d1aab7e2e23d883e5d1737b3176441051ca42c2214f8b606b919b95c7a7ca47051e133c02a49d77f68ebb072398a1ed18b8f7a27fcb1773a2d0'
26 '136a0f9725da7b692894a080d03d61bbfc67dcabf2f869b008891dbf042dfacb74c75df12a48bb9a9c736ce3accd670a55afae5ee40f090a0b86558e459c70bb')
27
28prepare() {
29 ln -sf "${srcdir}/${_net_name}" "Stockfish-sf_${pkgver}/src"
30}
31
32build() {
33 cd "Stockfish-sf_${pkgver}/src"
34
35 if [[ "$CC" = "gcc" ]]
36 then
37 _COMP=gcc
38 elif [[ "$CC" = "clang" ]]
39 then
40 _COMP=clang
41 else
42 _COMP=
43 fi
44
45 COMP=${_COMP} make profile-build
46}
47
48package() {
49 cd "Stockfish-sf_${pkgver}/src"
50 make PREFIX="$pkgdir/usr" install
51}
52
53# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
54

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