brother-dcpl3515cdw

maintainer Dasug · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged Downloads an official Brother printer driver RPM directly from download.brother.com (Brother's own official download infrastructure), which is a legitimate vendor source; the package simply repackages the RPM contents as a CUPS driver with no obfuscation or remote code execution concerns, though it installs a prebuilt binary filter from the vendor.

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LOW Few votes, recently uploaded zero_votes_recent

Uploaded within the last 14 days with 2 or fewer community votes — little peer review so far.

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 80%): Downloads an official Brother printer driver RPM directly from download.brother.com (Brother's own official download infrastructure), which is a legitimate vendor source; the package simply repackages the RPM contents as a CUPS driver with no obfuscation or remote code execution concerns, though it installs a prebuilt binary filter from the vendor.

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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:16 source=("https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf105768/${_model,,}pdrv-${pkgver}-${_revision}.i386.rpm")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Marius Kaufmann <dasug@improved-madness.de>
    
      2# Based on brother-dcpl3550cdw package from AUR, which in turn is based on brother-hll2370dn.
    
      3
    
      4pkgname="brother-dcpl3515cdw"
    
      5pkgver="3.5.1"
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc="CUPS driver for Brother DCP-L3515CDW"
    
      8arch=('x86_64')
    
      9url="https://support.brother.com/g/b/producttop.aspx?c=eu_ot&lang=en&prod=dcpl3515cdw_eu"
    
      10license=('custom:brother-license' 'GPL-2.0-only')
    
      11depends=('cups' 'perl' 'ghostscript')
    
      12_model="dcpl3515cdw"
    
      13_revision=2
    
      14
    
      15#https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf105768/dcpl3515cdwpdrv-3.5.1-2.i386.rpm
    
      16source=("https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf105768/${_model,,}pdrv-${pkgver}-${_revision}.i386.rpm")
    
      17sha256sums=("77f73f76873a75f53f9a709ec064430d9b820ca478d7e625b800e4046df1630c")
    
      18
    
      19package() {
    
      20	mkdir -p "$pkgdir/opt/brother"
    
      21	cp -R "$srcdir/opt/brother" "$pkgdir/opt"
    
      22
    
      23	# symlink for lpdwrapper so it correctly figures out the printer model from the path
    
      24	install -d "$pkgdir/usr/lib/cups/filter/"
    
      25	ln -s "/opt/brother/Printers/${_model}/cupswrapper/brother_lpdwrapper_${_model}" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/cups/filter/brother_lpdwrapper_${_model}"
    
      26
    
      27	# symlink for the PPD
    
      28	install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/cups/model/Brother"
    
      29	ln -s "/opt/brother/Printers/${_model}/cupswrapper/brother_${_model}_printer_en.ppd" "$pkgdir/usr/share/cups/model/Brother"
    
      30
    
      31	# symlink for inf because it tries to execute it there
    
      32	ln -s "/opt/brother/Printers/${_model}/inf" "$pkgdir/opt/brother/Printers/${_model}/lpd/"
    
      33
    
      34	# the filter script is invoked with the full path so it needs to exist in lpd
    
      35	ln -s "${CARCH}/br${_model}filter" "${pkgdir}/opt/brother/Printers/${_model}/lpd/br${_model}filter"
    
      36
    
      37	# brprintconf is invoked as a bare command by the cups wrapper, so it needs to be visible in the path
    
      38	install -d "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
    
      39	ln -s "/opt/brother/Printers/${_model}/lpd/${CARCH}/brprintconf_${_model}" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/brprintconf_${_model}"
    
      40
    
      41	# install custom brother license files
    
      42	install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/opt/brother/Printers/${_model}/LICENSE_ENG.txt" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}"
    
      43	install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/opt/brother/Printers/${_model}/LICENSE_JPN.txt" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}"
    
      44}
    
      45
    
      46

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	3
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	3
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	3
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	3
2026-07-30 23:20:54	LOW	3
2026-07-30 23:17:02	MEDIUM	2