table2asn

maintainer imjiaoyuan · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-18 00:03:42.021799

LOW

Why flagged Downloads a prebuilt binary from NCBI's official FTP server (ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov), which is the vendor's own infrastructure, with a pinned sha256 checksum; the only concern is that it installs a prebuilt ELF rather than building from source, but the source is the official NCBI distribution host.

Triggered rules

LOW Few votes, recently uploaded zero_votes_recent

Uploaded within the last 14 days with 2 or fewer community votes — little peer review so far.

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 80%): Downloads a prebuilt binary from NCBI's official FTP server (ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov), which is the vendor's own infrastructure, with a pinned sha256 checksum; the only concern is that it installs a prebuilt ELF rather than building from source, but the source is the official NCBI distribution host.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:17 source=("table2asn-${pkgver}.gz::https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/asn1-converters/by_program/table2asn/linux64.table2asn.gz")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: imjiaoyuan <imjiaoyuan@gmail.com>
    
      2
    
      3# Note: NCBI retired tbl2asn; table2asn is its official successor.
    
      4# https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/asn1-converters/by_program/table2asn/
    
      5
    
      6pkgname=table2asn
    
      7pkgver=1.29.324
    
      8pkgrel=1
    
      9pkgdesc="NCBI tool that converts 5-column feature tables into ASN.1 for GenBank submission (successor to tbl2asn)"
    
      10arch=('x86_64')
    
      11url="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/tbl2asn2/"
    
      12license=('Public Domain')
    
      13depends=('sqlite')
    
      14options=('!strip' '!debug')
    
      15# NCBI ships a single gzipped ELF binary (inner name 'linux64.table2asn');
    
      16# the upstream filename is unversioned, so we rename it with the version.
    
      17source=("table2asn-${pkgver}.gz::https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/asn1-converters/by_program/table2asn/linux64.table2asn.gz")
    
      18sha256sums=('785bed9880856b208ed84d9765ca094b7c7d12d2225781c2a1854b650d3984bf')
    
      19noextract=("table2asn-${pkgver}.gz")
    
      20
    
      21package() {
    
      22    cd "$srcdir"
    
      23    gunzip -c "table2asn-${pkgver}.gz" > table2asn
    
      24    install -Dm755 table2asn "$pkgdir/usr/bin/$pkgname"
    
      25}
    
      26

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-18 00:03:42	LOW	3
2026-08-17 00:18:29	LOW	3
2026-08-16 00:03:42	LOW	3
2026-08-15 15:30:38	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-15 00:26:13	LOW	3
2026-08-14 03:27:23	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-14 00:03:41	LOW	3
2026-08-13 00:17:07	LOW	3
2026-08-12 01:25:32	LOW	3
2026-08-12 01:22:13	MEDIUM	2