brother-hl6180dw-lpr-bin

maintainer ViBoSchu · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt Brother LPR driver .deb from Brother's official download domain; while the host is not universally whitelisted, it is a legitimate vendor domain, and the binary is part of standard printer driver distribution, not an arbitrary remote executable.

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-2507) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt Brother LPR driver .deb from Brother's official download domain; while the host is not universally whitelisted, it is a legitimate vendor domain, and the binary is part of standard printer driver distribution, not an arbitrary remote executable.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:26 "${_deb}::https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf006041/${_deb}"
PKGBUILD:27 'LICENSE.html::https://support.brother.com/g/s/agreement/English_lpr/agree.html'

PKGBUILD

2 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Vincent Schult <viboschu@gmail.com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=brother-hl6180dw-lpr-bin
    
      4pkgver=3.0.0_1
    
      5pkgrel=2
    
      6pkgdesc='LPR driver for Brother HL-6180DW printer'
    
      7arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
    
      8url='https://support.brother.com/g/b/producttop.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hl6180dw_all'
    
      9license=('LicenseRef-Brother-EULA' 'GPL-2.0-or-later')
    
      10depends=(
    
      11  ghostscript
    
      12  sh
    
      13)
    
      14depends_i686=(
    
      15  glibc
    
      16)
    
      17depends_x86_64=(
    
      18  lib32-glibc
    
      19)
    
      20
    
      21options=('!strip' '!debug' '!emptydirs')
    
      22
    
      23_deb="hl6180dwlpr-${pkgver/_/-}.i386.deb"
    
      24
    
      25source=(
    
      26  "${_deb}::https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf006041/${_deb}"
    
      27  'LICENSE.html::https://support.brother.com/g/s/agreement/English_lpr/agree.html'
    
      28)
    
      29noextract=(
    
      30  "${_deb}"
    
      31)
    
      32sha256sums=('3b9db34d70b8199c17a56df746da1431ee7bbac9df299cfd6ed28b78350c6769'
    
      33            '194f2a3b820f6533e7abbce7fdb727a1434a6e07f1851be696e40771e7a884ea')
    
      34
    
      35prepare(){
    
      36  cd "${srcdir}"
    
      37  rm -rf deb-root
    
      38  mkdir -p deb-root
    
      39  bsdtar -xf "${_deb}" -C deb-root
    
      40}
    
      41
    
      42package(){
    
      43  local data_tar=("${srcdir}/deb-root"/data.tar.*)
    
      44
    
      45  bsdtar -xf "${data_tar[0]}" -C "${pkgdir}"
    
      46
    
      47  local vendor="${pkgdir}/opt/brother/Printers/HL6180DW"
    
      48
    
      49  sed -i 's|GHOST_SCRIPT=`which gs`|GHOST_SCRIPT=/usr/bin/gs|' "${vendor}/lpd/psconvert2"
    
      50
    
      51  rm -f "${vendor}/inf/braddprinter" "${vendor}/inf/setupPrintcap" "${vendor}/lpd/brprintconflsr3"
    
      52
    
      53  rm -rf "${pkgdir}/var/spool/lpd" "${pkgdir}/etc/opt" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc"
    
      54
    
      55  install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/LICENSE.html" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE.html"
    
      56}
    
      57

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-06-20 16:03
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -1,17 +1,57 @@
-# Maintainer: Vincent Bogdan Schult <viboschu@gmail.com>
+# Maintainer: Vincent Schult <viboschu@gmail.com>
 
 pkgname=brother-hl6180dw-lpr-bin
 pkgver=3.0.0_1
-pkgrel=1
-pkgdesc="LPR driver for Brother HL-6180DW printer"
-arch=("i686" "x86_64")
-url="https://support.brother.com/g/b/producttop.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hl6180dw_all"
-license=("EULA")
-groups=("base-devel")
-source=("http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/hl6180dwlpr-3.0.0-1.i386.deb")
-md5sums=("99af1581fcbd4fcf20b01646e65215d3")
+pkgrel=2
+pkgdesc='LPR driver for Brother HL-6180DW printer'
+arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
+url='https://support.brother.com/g/b/producttop.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hl6180dw_all'
+license=('LicenseRef-Brother-EULA' 'GPL-2.0-or-later')
+depends=(
+  ghostscript
+  sh
+)
+depends_i686=(
+  glibc
+)
+depends_x86_64=(
+  lib32-glibc
+)
 
-package() {
-	tar -xf data.tar.gz -C "${pkgdir}"
+options=('!strip' '!debug' '!emptydirs')
+
+_deb="hl6180dwlpr-${pkgver/_/-}.i386.deb"
+
+source=(
+  "${_deb}::https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf006041/${_deb}"
+  'LICENSE.html::https://support.brother.com/g/s/agreement/English_lpr/agree.html'
+)
+noextract=(
+  "${_deb}"
+)
+sha256sums=('3b9db34d70b8199c17a56df746da1431ee7bbac9df299cfd6ed28b78350c6769'
+            '194f2a3b820f6533e7abbce7fdb727a1434a6e07f1851be696e40771e7a884ea')
+
+prepare(){
+  cd "${srcdir}"
+  rm -rf deb-root
+  mkdir -p deb-root
+  bsdtar -xf "${_deb}" -C deb-root
 }
 
+package(){
+  local data_tar=("${srcdir}/deb-root"/data.tar.*)
+
+  bsdtar -xf "${data_tar[0]}" -C "${pkgdir}"
+
+  local vendor="${pkgdir}/opt/brother/Printers/HL6180DW"
+
+  sed -i 's|GHOST_SCRIPT=`which gs`|GHOST_SCRIPT=/usr/bin/gs|' "${vendor}/lpd/psconvert2"
+
+  rm -f "${vendor}/inf/braddprinter" "${vendor}/inf/setupPrintcap" "${vendor}/lpd/brprintconflsr3"
+
+  rm -rf "${pkgdir}/var/spool/lpd" "${pkgdir}/etc/opt" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc"
+
+  install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/LICENSE.html" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE.html"
+}
+

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	2
2026-08-01 13:20:32	MEDIUM	1
2026-06-20 16:03:41	CLEAN	2
2026-06-20 00:50:07	MEDIUM	2
2026-06-20 00:18:46	MEDIUM	2
2026-06-19 23:51:18	MEDIUM	2
2026-06-18 16:11:54	MEDIUM	1