tempest-bin

LOW
maintainer malacology 0 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785
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Why flagged

The source is a legitimate academic project download from the official university-hosted website, which is plausibly the project's own infrastructure, despite not being on a standard code forge; the package installs a prebuilt Java tool without executing remote code or exhibiting malicious behavior.

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 source is a legitimate academic project download from the official university-hosted website, which is plausibly the project's own infrastructure, despite not being on a standard code forge; the package installs a prebuilt Java tool without executing remote code or exhibiting malicious behavior.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:18 source=("http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/download.php?id=102&num=3" "tempest.desktop")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Malacology <guoyizhang at malacology dot com>
2# Contributor: Malacology <guoyizhang at malacology dot com>
3
4pkgname=tempest-bin
5pkgver=1.5.3
6pkgrel=1
7depends=(
8 'jre-openjdk-headless'
9 'jre-openjdk'
10 'jdk-openjdk'
11 'openjdk-doc'
12 'openjdk-src'
13)
14pkgdesc="a tool for investigating the temporal signal and 'clocklikeness' of molecular phylogenies"
15arch=('x86_64')
16url="http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/software/tempest/"
17license=('GPL2')
18source=("http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/download.php?id=102&num=3" "tempest.desktop")
19sha256sums=('83e482a7ba946e38606cc3331765db45b4331337d92d030ebeb537e3e16fa44e'
20 '2af28c04f9d96f046947efeab28c27552be88ac56af0d8f1a0db2e439a228c45')
21
22package() {
23 install -dm755 "$pkgdir"/usr/{bin,share/{applications,tempest}}
24 install -m 755 ${srcdir}/*.desktop ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications
25 mv ${srcdir}/TempEst_v${pkgver}/* ${pkgdir}/usr/share/tempest
26 chmod +x ${pkgdir}/usr/share/tempest/bin/tempest
27 ln -s /usr/share/tempest/bin/tempest ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/tempest
28}
29
30

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
2026-11-01 00:21:48 Low 2
2026-10-31 00:07:41 Low 2
2026-10-30 00:29:30 Low 2
2026-10-29 00:13:55 Low 2
2026-10-28 00:06:54 Low 2
2026-10-27 00:23:28 Low 2
2026-10-26 00:12:40 Low 2
2026-10-25 00:20:48 Low 2
2026-10-24 00:14:55 Low 2
2026-10-23 00:02:19 Low 2
2026-10-22 00:13:10 Low 2
2026-10-21 00:12:50 Low 2
2026-10-20 00:10:31 Low 2
2026-10-19 00:03:55 Low 2
2026-10-18 00:06:55 Low 2
2026-10-17 00:21:55 Low 2
2026-10-16 00:12:47 Low 2
2026-10-15 00:28:05 Low 2
2026-10-14 00:06:47 Low 2
2026-10-13 00:23:45 Low 2

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