brother-hll2370dn

maintainer Bonnee · 4 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a Brother printer driver RPM from the official brother.com domain, which is a legitimate source for this hardware; although the host is not whitelisted, the content is a vendor-provided driver installed in a standard way, with no evidence of malicious behavior or code execution beyond normal driver installation.

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 Brother printer driver RPM from the official brother.com domain, which is a legitimate source for this hardware; although the host is not whitelisted, the content is a vendor-provided driver installed in a standard way, with no evidence of malicious behavior or code execution beyond normal driver installation.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:11 source=(http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf103580/${_model,,}pdrv-$pkgver-1.i386.rpm)

PKGBUILD

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      1# Mantainer: Matteo Bonora <bonora.matteo at gmail dot com>
    
      2_model=HLL2370DN
    
      3pkgname=brother-${_model,,}
    
      4pkgver=4.0.0
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="Brother ${_model} CUPS driver"
    
      7arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
    
      8url='http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html'
    
      9license=('GPL')
    
      10depends=('cups' 'perl')
    
      11source=(http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf103580/${_model,,}pdrv-$pkgver-1.i386.rpm)
    
      12sha256sums=('7123c153a59d447d6ccd0ba4f73ef480f4f497a38d4340822ab4c04437bec8e7')
    
      13
    
      14package() {
    
      15  # using /usr/share instead of /opt
    
      16  mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/share"
    
      17  cp -R "$srcdir/opt/brother" "$pkgdir/usr/share"
    
      18  sed -i 's|\\\/opt\\\/|\\\/usr\\\/|' "$pkgdir/usr/share/brother/Printers/${_model}/cupswrapper/lpdwrapper"
    
      19  sed -i 's|\\\/opt\\\/|\\\/usr\\\/|' "$pkgdir/usr/share/brother/Printers/${_model}/lpd/lpdfilter"
    
      20
    
      21  # symlink for lpdwrapper so it correctly figures out the printer model from the path
    
      22  install -d "$pkgdir/usr/lib/cups/filter/"
    
      23  ln -s "/usr/share/brother/Printers/${_model}/cupswrapper/lpdwrapper" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/cups/filter/brother_lpdwrapper_${_model}"
    
      24
    
      25  # symlink for the PPD
    
      26  install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/cups/model/"
    
      27  ln -s "/usr/share/brother/Printers/${_model}/cupswrapper/brother-${_model}-cups-en.ppd" "$pkgdir/usr/share/cups/model/"
    
      28
    
      29  # a couple architecture-specific symlinks
    
      30  ln -s "/usr/share/brother/Printers/${_model}/lpd/$CARCH/brprintconflsr3" "$pkgdir/usr/share/brother/Printers/${_model}/lpd/"
    
      31  ln -s "/usr/share/brother/Printers/${_model}/lpd/$CARCH/rawtobr3" "$pkgdir/usr/share/brother/Printers/${_model}/lpd/"
    
      32
    
      33  # symlink for inf because it tries to execute it there
    
      34  ln -s "/usr/share/brother/Printers/${_model}/inf" "$pkgdir/usr/share/brother/Printers/${_model}/lpd/"
    
      35}
    
      36
    
      37

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 00:11:18	LOW	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	LOW	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	LOW	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	LOW	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	LOW	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	2