ucsc-psl-bin

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

LOW

Why flagged Downloads prebuilt binaries from UCSC's official genome browser download server (hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu), which is the project's own infrastructure; sha256 checksums are provided for all binaries, making silent substitution detectable; the only concern is that these are unversioned upstream binaries from an official but non-whitelisted 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 prebuilt binaries from UCSC's official genome browser download server (hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu), which is the project's own infrastructure; sha256 checksums are provided for all binaries, making silent substitution detectable; the only concern is that these are unversioned upstream binaries from an official but non-whitelisted 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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:15 source=("https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/pslToBed"

PKGBUILD

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      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-psl-bin
    
      7pkgver=20250627
    
      8pkgrel=1
    
      9pkgdesc="UCSC PSL alignment utilities: pslToBed, pslReps, pslCDnaFilter"
    
      10arch=('x86_64')
    
      11url="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/"
    
      12license=('MIT')
    
      13depends=('glibc' 'curl' 'gcc-libs')
    
      14options=('!strip' '!debug')
    
      15source=("https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/pslToBed"
    
      16        "https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/pslReps"
    
      17        "https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/pslCDnaFilter"
    
      18        "LICENSE::https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ucscGenomeBrowser/kent/master/LICENSE")
    
      19sha256sums=('e962977fea079c874fbc8820ccad12a8e6900b31914c1dd9a6de1fed5992f090'
    
      20            'eeb0400455cfe4debdefe1f74e268e154dbf7f1e08fba4fe84eed97d39f7968a'
    
      21            '92ab6a909769bca6ddd4facf3caffa165e0247229d223293124af6edbb8c7b4e'
    
      22            '793d774ec3941d88d5f93611639230030ea3e167282be144b6e5604bc5ad29a4')
    
      23
    
      24package() {
    
      25    install -Dm755 "$srcdir/pslToBed"     "$pkgdir/usr/bin/pslToBed"
    
      26    install -Dm755 "$srcdir/pslReps"      "$pkgdir/usr/bin/pslReps"
    
      27    install -Dm755 "$srcdir/pslCDnaFilter" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/pslCDnaFilter"
    
      28    install -Dm644 "$srcdir/LICENSE" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
    
      29}
    
      30

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 17:37:55	LOW	3
2026-08-16 17:33:23	MEDIUM	2