brother-cups-wrapper-common

LOW
maintainer quenyen 53 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785
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Why flagged

The package downloads a Debian package from a mirror of an official Ubuntu repository to extract common files for Brother printer drivers; while the host is not a standard whitelisted one, it is a legitimate Ubuntu mirror, and the content is non-executable data and configuration files, not malicious code.

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 Debian package from a mirror of an official Ubuntu repository to extract common files for Brother printer drivers; while the host is not a standard whitelisted one, it is a legitimate Ubuntu mirror, and the content is non-executable data and configuration files, not malicious code.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:15 source=(http://ubuntu-master.mirror.tudos.de/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/b/${pkgname}/${pkgname}_${pkgver}-10-0ubuntu7_${_a}.deb)

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Contributor: cdfk <cdfk1981-at-gmail.com>
2
3pkgname=brother-cups-wrapper-common
4pkgver=1.0.0
5pkgrel=3
6pkgdesc="This package provides common files for some of the Brother cups wrapper packages."
7license=('GPL' 'custom:brother commercial license')
8url="http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html"
9arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
10depends=('brother-lpr-drivers-common' 'cups')
11[ $CARCH == "x86_64" ] && _a="amd64" && md5sums=(
12 'a0eba0401fe80b7a4c1de777032d24f1')
13[ $CARCH == "i686" ] && _a="i386" && md5sums=(
14 '0606a3bddcc387254eb0c0ffeadae72c')
15source=(http://ubuntu-master.mirror.tudos.de/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/b/${pkgname}/${pkgname}_${pkgver}-10-0ubuntu7_${_a}.deb)
16
17build() {
18 cd $srcdir || return 1
19 ar -x ${pkgname}_${pkgver}-10-0ubuntu7_${_a}.deb || return 1
20}
21
22package() {
23 cd $pkgdir || return 1
24 tar -xvf ${srcdir}/data.tar.xz || return 1
25}
26

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