brother-9320cw-cups-bin

maintainer meckhert · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
LOW
broken
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Why flagged The source is a prebuilt i386 Debian binary package (.deb) downloaded directly from download.brother.com, which is Brother's official vendor download server — the same host used by all Brother printer driver AUR packages. This is a well-established pattern in the AUR for proprietary printer drivers. The MD5 checksum is present (though weak, it provides some integrity check). The PKGBUILD is sloppy (missing bsdtar/ar extraction step to unpack the .deb before extracting data.tar.gz, so it's likely broken as written), but the source origin is legitimate. The cheaper model's concern about 'non-whitelisted host' is a false positive — download.brother.com is the canonical official Brother download infrastructure used across dozens of AUR printer driver packages. No obfuscation, no unofficial personal host, no piracy concern. The main issues are: (1) weak MD5 checksum instead of SHA256, (2) the package() function is missing the `ar x` step to unpack the .deb first, making this likely non-functional. Rating: low (sloppy packaging, not a security concern), with broken flag due to missing ar extraction step.

Triggered rules

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 85%): The source is a prebuilt i386 Debian binary package (.deb) downloaded directly from download.brother.com, which is Brother's official vendor download server — the same host used by all Brother printer driver AUR packages. This is a well-established pattern in the AUR for proprietary printer drivers. The MD5 checksum is present (though weak, it provides some integrity check). The PKGBUILD is sloppy (missing bsdtar/ar extraction step to unpack the .deb before extracting data.tar.gz, so it's likely broken as written), but the source origin is legitimate. The cheaper model's concern about 'non-whitelisted host' is a false positive — download.brother.com is the canonical official Brother download infrastructure used across dozens of AUR printer driver packages. No obfuscation, no unofficial personal host, no piracy concern. The main issues are: (1) weak MD5 checksum instead of SHA256, (2) the package() function is missing the `ar x` step to unpack the .deb first, making this likely non-functional. Rating: low (sloppy packaging, not a security concern), with broken flag due to missing ar extraction step.

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:10 source=("https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf006463/mfc9320cwcupswrapper-1.1.2-2.i386.deb")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Marc Eckhert <meckhert@gmail.com.com>
2pkgname=brother-9320cw-cups-bin
3pkgver=1.1.2
4pkgrel=1
5pkgdesc="CUPS driver for Brother 9320CW printer"
6arch=("i686" "x86_64")
7url="https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=mfc9320cw_all"
8license=("EULA")
9groups=("base-devel")
10source=("https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf006463/mfc9320cwcupswrapper-1.1.2-2.i386.deb")
11md5sums=("3400469099272f571ff86078a944c696")
12package() {
13 tar -xf data.tar.gz -C "${pkgdir}"
14}
15

Scan history

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2026-08-03 00:08:14 LOW 2
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