brother-hl2130

LOW

maintainer nexero 1 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads official Brother LPR and CUPS driver RPMs from brother.com, a legitimate vendor domain, to build a printer driver; despite the host not being on a whitelist, the sources are authentic vendor binaries, and the build process repackages them safely for Arch Linux.

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 official Brother LPR and CUPS driver RPMs from brother.com, a legitimate vendor domain, to build a printer driver; despite the host not being on a whitelist, the sources are authentic vendor binaries, and the build process repackages them safely for Arch Linux.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:14 "http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/hl2130lpr-${lprver//_/-}.i386.rpm"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Martin Wiechmann <mwiechmann at techfak dot uni-bielefeld dot de>
    
      2pkgname="brother-hl2130"
    
      3pkgver="2.0.4_2"
    
      4lprver="2.1.0_1"
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="LPR and CUPS driver for the Brother HL2130"
    
      7arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
    
      8url="http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/"
    
      9license=('custom:brother commercial license')
    
      10depends=('cups'
    
      11         'ghostscript')
    
      12install='brother-hl2130.install'
    
      13source=(
    
      14        "http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/hl2130lpr-${lprver//_/-}.i386.rpm"
    
      15	"http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/cupswrapperHL2130-${pkgver//_/-}.i386.rpm"
    
      16	'cupswrapper-license.txt'
    
      17	'lpr-license.txt'
    
      18)
    
      19md5sums=('fe8d1a4c20e6dc30529218f48d623fe4'
    
      20         '04dba3074c076be54c24fda8f6f2f630'
    
      21         '97ad0cffd216059e9d1d3121899d8646'
    
      22         '5e87a3dc0f3e3438c088eda0f3565f0d')
    
      23
    
      24if test "$CARCH" == x86_64; then
    
      25  depends+=('lib32-glibc')
    
      26fi
    
      27prepare() {
    
      28#  do not install in '/usr/local'
    
      29	if [ -d $srcdir/usr/local/Brother ]; then
    
      30		install -d $srcdir/usr/share
    
      31		mv $srcdir/usr/local/Brother/ $srcdir/usr/share/brother
    
      32		rm -rf $srcdir/usr/local
    
      33	        sed -i 's|/usr/local/Brother|/usr/share/brother|g' `grep -lr '/usr/local/Brother' ./`
    
      34        fi
    
      35# setup cups-directories
    
      36	install -d $srcdir/usr/share/cups/model
    
      37	install -d $srcdir/usr/lib/cups/filter
    
      38#  go to the cupswrapper directory and find the source file from wich to generate a ppd- and wrapper-file
    
      39	cd `find . -type d -name 'cupswrapper'`
    
      40	if [ -f cupswrapper* ]; then
    
      41		_wrapper_source=`ls cupswrapper*`
    
      42		sed -i '/^\/etc\/init.d\/cups/d' $_wrapper_source
    
      43		sed -i '/^sleep/d' $_wrapper_source
    
      44		sed -i '/^lpadmin/d' $_wrapper_source
    
      45		sed -i 's|/usr|$srcdir/usr|g' $_wrapper_source
    
      46		sed -i 's|/opt|$srcdir/opt|g' $_wrapper_source
    
      47		sed -i 's|/model/Brother|/model|g' $_wrapper_source
    
      48		sed -i 's|lpinfo|echo|g' $_wrapper_source
    
      49		export srcdir=$srcdir
    
      50		./$_wrapper_source
    
      51		sed -i 's|$srcdir||' $srcdir/usr/lib/cups/filter/*lpdwrapper*
    
      52		sed -i "s|$srcdir||" $srcdir/usr/lib/cups/filter/*lpdwrapper*
    
      53		rm $_wrapper_source
    
      54	fi
    
      55#  /etc/printcap is managed by cups
    
      56	rm `find $srcdir -type f -name 'setupPrintcap*'`
    
      57}
    
      58package() {
    
      59	cp -R $srcdir/usr $pkgdir
    
      60	if [ -d $srcdir/opt ]; then cp -R $srcdir/opt $pkgdir; fi
    
      61	install -m 644 -D cupswrapper-license.txt $pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/cupswrapper-licence.txt
    
      62	install -m 644 -D lpr-license.txt $pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/lpr-licence.txt
    
      63}
    
      64

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