brother-mfc-9130cw

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

The package downloads official Brother printer driver .deb files from brother.com, a legitimate vendor domain, and extracts them using standard tools; despite the non-whitelisted host, the source is verifiable and the actions are typical for installing proprietary drivers.

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 printer driver .deb files from brother.com, a legitimate vendor domain, and extracts them using standard tools; despite the non-whitelisted host, the source is verifiable and the actions are typical for installing proprietary drivers.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:16 source=("http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfc${model}lpr-${pkgver}-${_revision}.i386.deb"

PKGBUILD

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1# Maintainer: Adam Harvey <adam@adamharvey.name>
2# Contributor: Samuel Bernard <samuel.bernard@gmail.com>
3# Based on Samuel Bernard's brother-mfc-9320cw AUR package.
4model="9130cw"
5pkgname="brother-mfc-$model"
6pkgver="1.1.2"
7pkgrel=1
8_revision=1
9_revision_cups=1
10pkgdesc="LPR and CUPS driver for the Brother MFC-9130CW"
11url="http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html"
12arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
13license=('GPL2')
14install="brother-mfc-${model}.install"
15depends=('tcsh' 'deb2targz' 'perl' 'a2ps')
16source=("http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfc${model}lpr-${pkgver}-${_revision}.i386.deb"
17 "http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfc${model}cupswrapper-${pkgver}-${_revision_cups}.i386.deb")
18sha256sums=('6ea12c777fd19735767757e977591d8c51353ccda7b8e4af130cc48aee85736d'
19 '693211aff498e6cd308279899d439fa44657be0e6f5879f4ebc5530637d477ca')
20
21package() {
22 deb2targz *.deb >/dev/null || return 1
23 rm -f *.deb || return 1
24 cd $srcdir || return 1
25 [ -d "mfc${model}" ] || (mkdir mfc${model} || return 1)
26 for i in *.tar.gz;do tar xfz $i -C mfc${model};done || return 1
27 cd mfc${model} || return 1
28 cd opt/brother/Printers/mfc${model} || return 1
29 perl -i -pe 's#/etc/init.d#/etc/rc.d#g' ./cupswrapper/cupswrappermfc${model} || return 1
30 perl -i -pe 's#printcap\.local#printcap#g' $srcdir/mfc${model}/opt/brother/Printers/mfc${model}/inf/setupPrintcapij || return 1
31 cp -rf $srcdir/mfc${model}/usr/ $pkgdir/ || return 1
32 cp -rf $srcdir/mfc${model}/opt/ $pkgdir/ || return 1
33}
34

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
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2026-09-01 00:11:19 Low 2
2026-08-31 00:19:57 Low 2
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