xppaut-bin

LOW

maintainer masala_man 2 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt binary from a university-hosted site (pitt.edu) which is plausibly the project's official source; despite the non-whitelisted host and lack of upstream URL, the binary is installed directly and no malicious behavior is evident, making the risk low.

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 package downloads a prebuilt binary from a university-hosted site (pitt.edu) which is plausibly the project's official source; despite the non-whitelisted host and lack of upstream URL, the binary is installed directly and no malicious behavior is evident, making the risk low.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:12 source=("https://sites.pitt.edu/~phase/bard/bardware/binary/latest/xpplinux.tgz")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Ayush Shenoy <ayush.shenoy92@gmail.com>
    
      2# Contributor: Paulo Castro <p.oliveira.castro@gmail.com>
    
      3_pkgname='xppaut'
    
      4pkgname="$_pkgname-bin"
    
      5pkgver=8.0
    
      6pkgrel=2
    
      7pkgdesc="Tool for simulating, animating, and analyzing dynamical systems"
    
      8arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
    
      9url="https://sites.pitt.edu/~phase/bard/bardware/xpp/xpp.html"
    
      10license=('GPL')
    
      11depends=('libx11')
    
      12source=("https://sites.pitt.edu/~phase/bard/bardware/binary/latest/xpplinux.tgz")
    
      13md5sums=('4645feb732deca97bb4a276b74c21010')
    
      14
    
      15package() {
    
      16	cd "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}${pkgver}ubuntu"
    
      17    install -Dm755 $_pkgname "$pkgdir/usr/bin/$_pkgname"
    
      18    install -Dm644 cuda/* -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$_pkgname/cuda"
    
      19    install -Dm644 ode/* -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$_pkgname/ode"
    
      20    install -Dm644 canonical/* -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$_pkgname/canonical"
    
      21    install -Dm644 tstauto/* -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$_pkgname/tstauto"
    
      22    install -Dm644 LICENSE "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$_pkgname/LICENSE"
    
      23    install -Dm755 README "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$_pkgname/README"
    
      24    install -Dm755 $_pkgname.1 "$pkgdir/usr/share/man/man1/$_pkgname.1"
    
      25    mandb
    
      26}
    
      27

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Low	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Low	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Low	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Low	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Low	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Low	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Low	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Low	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Low	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Low	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Low	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Low	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Low	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Low	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Low	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Low	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Low	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Low	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Low	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Low	2