brother-bradmin-light

LOW

maintainer severach 4 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads a source tarball from Brother's official domain (brother.com) for building the software, which is a legitimate and expected practice; the host is not on typical whitelists but is plausibly the official vendor, and the content is a self-contained Java application installed locally without remote code execution or obfuscation.

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 source tarball from Brother's official domain (brother.com) for building the software, which is a legitimate and expected practice; the host is not on typical whitelists but is plausibly the official vendor, and the content is a self-contained Java application installed locally without remote code execution or obfuscation.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:13 source=("https://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/${_brfile}.tar.gz")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Chris Severance aur.severach aATt spamgourmet dott com
    
      2
    
      3set -u
    
      4pkgname='brother-bradmin-light'
    
      5pkgver='1.20.0'; _brfile='qdsel120brl'
    
      6pkgrel='1'
    
      7pkgdesc='administer Brother printers'
    
      8arch=('any')
    
      9#url='http://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/download_esp.html'
    
      10url='https://www.brother.com/apps/'
    
      11license=('custom:Brother Industries')
    
      12depends=('java-environment')
    
      13source=("https://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/${_brfile}.tar.gz")
    
      14md5sums=('716bca6f565de905b8f0596f010a17fa')
    
      15sha256sums=('a6e09cf8b39be008d0cdf3cdd45c4e23ae1548720415671b8840a81359b09c39')
    
      16
    
      17package() {
    
      18  local -
    
      19  set -u
    
      20  cd "${_brfile}"
    
      21  install -d "${pkgdir}/opt/brother-bradmin/"
    
      22  mv * "${pkgdir}/opt/brother-bradmin/"
    
      23
    
      24  # Desktop file for config tool
    
      25  install -Dm644 <(cat << EOF
    
      26[Desktop Entry]
    
      27Name=BRAdmin Light
    
      28GenericName=Brother Printer Manager
    
      29Comment=Administer Brother Printers
    
      30Exec=java -jar '/opt/brother-bradmin/BRAdmin Light.jar'
    
      31Terminal=false
    
      32Type=Application
    
      33#Icon=
    
      34Categories=Settings;Utility;
    
      35MimeType=application/x-executable
    
      36EOF
    
      37  ) "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/brother-bradmin-light.desktop"
    
      38}
    
      39set +u
    
      40

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