ucsc-bigbed-bin

maintainer imjiaoyuan · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-18 00:03:42.021799
LOW
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Why flagged Prebuilt binaries downloaded from UCSC's official genome browser download server (hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu), which is the project's own infrastructure, with sha256 checksums provided; the main concern is that these are unversioned upstream binaries that could change silently, but the source is the official UCSC distribution host, not an unrelated third-party swappable location.

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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 75%): Prebuilt binaries downloaded from UCSC's official genome browser download server (hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu), which is the project's own infrastructure, with sha256 checksums provided; the main concern is that these are unversioned upstream binaries that could change silently, but the source is the official UCSC distribution host, not an unrelated third-party swappable location.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:15 source=("https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/bedToBigBed"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: imjiaoyuan <imjiaoyuan@gmail.com>
2
3# Prebuilt UCSC Genome Browser binaries. Upstream files are unversioned, so
4# pkgver is the newest HTTP Last-Modified date (YYYYMMDD) across the group.
5
6pkgname=ucsc-bigbed-bin
7pkgver=20260407
8pkgrel=1
9pkgdesc="UCSC bigBed format utilities: bedToBigBed, bigBedToBed, bigBedInfo"
10arch=('x86_64')
11url="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/"
12license=('MIT')
13depends=('glibc')
14options=('!strip' '!debug')
15source=("https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/bedToBigBed"
16 "https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/bigBedToBed"
17 "https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/bigBedInfo"
18 "LICENSE::https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ucscGenomeBrowser/kent/master/LICENSE")
19sha256sums=('73e10feef3a685304d71c840058ae9a5113bdc4e134f161d3913cfebc5a2ec24'
20 '9d1ea2158f5aa958fd8820fb7a2e5fb0947a9da7b183b8f9237429b8fbacd386'
21 '0bd90a5a421d52da419ba5afb0d3e5a03244341ac416ada9358c7ccab159cf39'
22 '793d774ec3941d88d5f93611639230030ea3e167282be144b6e5604bc5ad29a4')
23
24package() {
25 install -Dm755 "$srcdir/bedToBigBed" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/bedToBigBed"
26 install -Dm755 "$srcdir/bigBedToBed" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/bigBedToBed"
27 install -Dm755 "$srcdir/bigBedInfo" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/bigBedInfo"
28 install -Dm644 "$srcdir/LICENSE" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
29}
30

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Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
2026-08-18 00:03:42 LOW 3
2026-08-17 00:18:29 LOW 3
2026-08-16 17:37:55 LOW 3
2026-08-16 17:33:23 MEDIUM 2

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