xnviewmp

LOW
maintainer Corax 330 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785
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Why flagged

The source is a prebuilt binary from the official project's download domain (xnview.com), which is not on the whitelist but is plausibly legitimate; the package installs only the official application without executing untrusted remote code or exfiltrating data.

Triggered rules

Low AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 95%): The source is a prebuilt binary from the official project's download domain (xnview.com), which is not on the whitelist but is plausibly legitimate; the package installs only the official application without executing untrusted remote code or exfiltrating data.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:25 source=("XnViewMP-linux-x64_${pkgver}-rel${srcrel}.tgz::https://download.xnview.com/old_versions/XnView_MP/XnView_MP-${pkgver}-linux-x64.tgz"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Kevin Brodsky <corax26 'at' gmail 'dot' com>
2# Contributor: Evan Penner <gryffyn@archlinux 'dot' net>
3# Contributor: Iru Cai <mytbk920423\x40gmail 'dot' com>
4# Contributor: Houlala <houlala 'at' gmail 'dot' com>
5# Contributor: Olivier Duclos <olivier.duclos gmail.com>
6# Contributor: wido <widomaker2k7@gmail.com>
7# Contributor: VuDu <vudu 'dot' curse 'at' gmail 'dot' com>
8# Contributor: Martin Poljak <martin 'at' poljak 'dot' cz>
9
10pkgname=xnviewmp
11pkgver=1.12.1
12srcrel=1 # Incremented when there is a new release for the same version number
13pkgrel=2
14pkgdesc="An efficient multimedia viewer, browser and converter."
15url="https://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/"
16
17arch=('x86_64')
18license=('custom')
19# Require qt6-multimedia to pull all its dependencies. We do not actually need
20# to depend on qt6-*, but qt6-multimedia (and indirectly qt6-base) have
21# various dependencies that we need even when using the packaged libraries.
22depends=('qt6-multimedia')
23optdepends=('glib2: support for moving files to trash')
24
25source=("XnViewMP-linux-x64_${pkgver}-rel${srcrel}.tgz::https://download.xnview.com/old_versions/XnView_MP/XnView_MP-${pkgver}-linux-x64.tgz"
26 'XnView.desktop')
27sha256sums=('76c9dac7c003033faf941641060cbd83b96edeb142e90b30b5968fd8960b1775'
28 'f6b3a4aaa0a55b5f21d9b91ab6f3da3d6ee077ba7fdd17e7c4ab1c69ad2a9e3a')
29
30package() {
31 install -d -m755 "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}"
32 install -d -m755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
33 install -d -m755 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications"
34
35 cp -a "${srcdir}/XnView"/* "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}"
36 ln -s "/opt/${pkgname}/xnview.sh" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}"
37
38 install -m644 "${srcdir}/XnView.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/XnView.desktop"
39 install -D -m644 "${srcdir}/XnView/license.txt" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
40
41 # Clean up
42 rm "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}/XnView.desktop"
43 chmod 644 "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}"/xnview*.png
44 chmod 755 "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}/XnView"
45}
46
47# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
48

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-10-31 00:07
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-11-01 00:21
@@ -8,23 +8,23 @@
# Contributor: Martin Poljak <martin 'at' poljak 'dot' cz>
pkgname=xnviewmp
-pkgver=1.11.5
+pkgver=1.12.1
srcrel=1 # Incremented when there is a new release for the same version number
-pkgrel=1
+pkgrel=2
pkgdesc="An efficient multimedia viewer, browser and converter."
url="https://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/"
arch=('x86_64')
license=('custom')
-# Require qt5-multimedia to pull all its dependencies. We do not actually need
-# to depend on qt5-*, but qt5-multimedia (and indirectly qt5-base) have
+# Require qt6-multimedia to pull all its dependencies. We do not actually need
+# to depend on qt6-*, but qt6-multimedia (and indirectly qt6-base) have
# various dependencies that we need even when using the packaged libraries.
-depends=('qt5-multimedia')
+depends=('qt6-multimedia')
optdepends=('glib2: support for moving files to trash')
source=("XnViewMP-linux-x64_${pkgver}-rel${srcrel}.tgz::https://download.xnview.com/old_versions/XnView_MP/XnView_MP-${pkgver}-linux-x64.tgz"
'XnView.desktop')
-sha256sums=('736c272f3007a59d9247fb6786f7a4d34d442386c1ceb262fae090261e96a9b7'
+sha256sums=('76c9dac7c003033faf941641060cbd83b96edeb142e90b30b5968fd8960b1775'
'f6b3a4aaa0a55b5f21d9b91ab6f3da3d6ee077ba7fdd17e7c4ab1c69ad2a9e3a')
package() {

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Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
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2026-10-31 13:58:24 Low 2
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