brother-dcp1622we-lpr-bin

LOW
maintainer phaleth 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from Brother's official download domain, which is a standard and expected source for proprietary printer drivers; while the host is not whitelisted, it is plausibly legitimate and the worst case of a swapped artifact would be a malicious binary, but the source is from the vendor's own infrastructure.

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 .deb from Brother's official download domain, which is a standard and expected source for proprietary printer drivers; while the host is not whitelisted, it is plausibly legitimate and the worst case of a swapped artifact would be a malicious binary, but the source is from the vendor's own infrastructure.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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/dlf102485/dcp1610wlpr-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}.i386.deb")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: phaleth
2pkgname=brother-dcp1622we-lpr-bin
3pkgver=3.0.1
4pkgrel=1
5pkgdesc="LPR driver for Brother DCP-1622WE printer"
6arch=("i686" "x86_64")
7url="https://support.brother.com/g/b/producttop.aspx?c=eu_ot&lang=en&prod=dcp1622we_eu"
8license=("EULA")
9groups=("base-devel")
10source=("https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf102485/dcp1610wlpr-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}.i386.deb")
11sha256sums=('862d1bdb70e0497553fdf340f98d9a24e768a6ded2c235326327aff356e81a58')
12package() {
13 tar -xf data.tar.gz -C "${pkgdir}"
14}
15

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
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

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