brother-mfc-9332cdw

LOW
maintainer windy 6 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The package downloads official Brother printer drivers from the vendor's own download domain, which is plausible and expected for proprietary drivers; the non-whitelisted host is the vendor's legitimate distribution point, not a third-party or swappable host, and the binaries are standard Debian packages for a specific hardware model.

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 drivers from the vendor's own download domain, which is plausible and expected for proprietary drivers; the non-whitelisted host is the vendor's legitimate distribution point, not a third-party or swappable host, and the binaries are standard Debian packages for a specific hardware model.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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 source=("http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf101620/mfc${model}lpr-${lprver}.i386.deb"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1model="9332cdw"
2pkgname="brother-mfc-$model"
3pkgver="20170302"
4pkgrel=3
5lprver="1.1.3-0"
6cwver="1.1.4-0"
7pkgdesc="LPR and CUPS drivers for Brother MFC-9332CDW"
8url="https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=de&lang=de&prod=mfc9332cdw_eu&os=128&flang=English"
9arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
10license=('unknown')
11install="brother-mfc-${model}.install"
12depends=('perl' 'a2ps' 'libcups')
13optdepends=('brscan4: Scanner support')
14source=("http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf101620/mfc${model}lpr-${lprver}.i386.deb"
15 "http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf101621/mfc${model}cupswrapper-${cwver}.i386.deb")
16sha512sums=('78c84b107333457afaa3b12b8e3c89067c68150ca6d0d6e5df6414c56e55faca99038bf8b6937213ce925aade2d3142b738efea784893ff0e1ab1d1d7d9c1021'
17 'd0a5eb28962613649831f2d5f54a61196394f6a8c256826c813af073363881e8ab86b31c23a64c95c2ed1c1f4ca6b7bf3f25c6bc7d6ff4eaa7948e18369fc482')
18
19package() {
20 ar x mfc${model}lpr-${lprver}.i386.deb && tar xzvf data.tar.gz
21 ar x mfc${model}cupswrapper-${cwver}.i386.deb && tar xzvf data.tar.gz
22
23 cd opt/brother/Printers/mfc${model}
24 perl -i -pe 's#/etc/init.d#/etc/rc.d#g' ./cupswrapper/cupswrappermfc${model}
25 perl -i -pe 's#printcap\.local#printcap#g' ./inf/setupPrintcapij
26
27 cp -rf $srcdir/usr/ $pkgdir/
28 cp -rf $srcdir/opt/ $pkgdir/
29}
30

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
2026-09-11 00:19:22 Low 2
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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
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