whitebox

maintainer elisaverga · 7 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The source is downloaded from a university-hosted website (uoguelph.ca), which is plausibly the project's official home; the software is a Java-based GIS tool unpacked and installed locally, with no evidence of remote code execution or malicious behavior; the non-whitelisted host is academic and project-specific, not a generic file host, reducing supply-chain risk.

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 downloaded from a university-hosted website (uoguelph.ca), which is plausibly the project's official home; the software is a Java-based GIS tool unpacked and installed locally, with no evidence of remote code execution or malicious behavior; the non-whitelisted host is academic and project-specific, not a generic file host, reducing supply-chain risk.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:16 source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.zip::http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/Whitebox/WhiteboxGAT.zip"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Samuel Fernando Mesa <samuelmesa dot linuxmail.org>
    
      2# Contributor: SaultDon <sault.don gmail>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=whitebox
    
      5pkgver=3.4.0
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7_pkgname="WhiteboxGAT"
    
      8pkgdesc="A Geographic information system (GIS) and remote sensing package intended for advanced geospatial analysis and data visualization."
    
      9arch=('any')
    
      10url="http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/Whitebox/index.html"
    
      11license=('GPL3')
    
      12depends=('jre8-openjdk' 'bash')
    
      13provides=("$pkgname=$pkgver")
    
      14install=$pkgname.install
    
      15changelog=$pkgname.changelog
    
      16source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.zip::http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/Whitebox/WhiteboxGAT.zip"
    
      17	"$pkgname.sh"
    
      18	"$pkgname.desktop")
    
      19noextract=($pkgname-$pkgver.zip)
    
      20sha1sums=('8fc1103b4be88cbd69f00004100a6403a7d46e65'
    
      21          'a5864fbbc835f91b210281a6cdddea3c8572faae'
    
      22          '88138d349e4e65ed1d92e9e22c7c9172d40dcfb0')
    
      23
    
      24package(){
    
      25
    
      26	msg2 "Installing desktop entry..."
    
      27	install -Dm644 $srcdir/$pkgname.desktop \
    
      28	  "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/$pkgname.desktop"
    
      29
    
      30	msg2 "Installing package..."
    
      31	install -d $pkgdir/opt
    
      32
    
      33	install -D $srcdir/$pkgname.sh \
    
      34	  "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgname/$pkgname.sh"
    
      35
    
      36	bsdtar --no-same-owner \
    
      37	       -s /$_pkgname/$pkgname/ \
    
      38	       --exclude .DS_Store \
    
      39           --exclude __MACOSX \
    
      40	       --directory $pkgdir/opt \
    
      41	       -xf $pkgname-$pkgver.zip $_pkgname
    
      42
    
      43	msg2 "Installing license..."
    
      44	install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname"
    
      45    sed -n '/GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE/,/why-not-lgpl.html>./p' "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgname/ReleaseNotes.txt" > "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
    
      46
    
      47    msg2 "Installing icon..."
    
      48    install -Dm644 $pkgdir/opt/$pkgname/resources/Images/wbGAT.png \
    
      49      "$pkgdir/usr/share/pixmaps/$pkgname.png"
    
      50	
    
      51	msg2 "Making required folders/files writeable..."
    
      52    find $pkgdir/opt/$pkgname -exec chmod 777 '{}' \;
    
      53	find $pkgdir/opt/$pkgname -type f -name '*.jar' -exec chmod go-w '{}' \;
    
      54	find $pkgdir/opt/$pkgname -type f -name '*.java' -exec chmod go-w '{}' \;
    
      55	find $pkgdir/opt/$pkgname/resources/Images -exec chmod go-w '{}' \;
    
      56}
    
      57

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	LOW	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	LOW	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	LOW	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	LOW	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	2