brother-mfc-9465cdn

LOW
maintainer ulaktar 0 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785
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Why flagged

The package downloads official Brother printer drivers from the vendor's own domain (brother.com), which is a legitimate source for this hardware; the non-whitelisted host is the vendor's official update server, and the downloaded .deb files are standard driver packages, not obfuscated or malicious payloads.

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 domain (brother.com), which is a legitimate source for this hardware; the non-whitelisted host is the vendor's official update server, and the downloaded .deb files are standard driver packages, not obfuscated or malicious payloads.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:19 source=("http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfc${_model}lpr-${pkgver}-${_revision}.i386.deb"

PKGBUILD

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1# Maintainer: Taras Ulakhovich <taras.ulakhovich@gmail.com>
2# Based on brother-mfc-9460cdn package from AUR
3
4_model="9465cdn"
5pkgname="brother-mfc-$_model"
6pkgver="1.1.1"
7pkgrel=1
8pkgdesc="LPR and CUPS driver for the Brother MFC-9465CDN"
9arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
10url="http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html"
11license=('unknown')
12depends=('tcsh' 'deb2targz' 'perl' 'a2ps')
13if test "$CARCH" == x86_64; then
14 depends+=(lib32-glibc)
15fi
16install="brother-mfc-${_model}.install"
17_revision=5
18
19source=("http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfc${_model}lpr-${pkgver}-${_revision}.i386.deb"
20 "http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfc${_model}cupswrapper-${pkgver}-${_revision}.i386.deb")
21md5sums=('d5bfd57216e53cfaf7c04de42055209e'
22 '31480002670c88352c3525a37d678bea')
23
24
25build() {
26 deb2targz *.deb >/dev/null || return 1
27 rm -f *.deb || return 1
28 cd $srcdir || return 1
29 [ -d "mfc${_model}" ] || (mkdir mfc${_model} || return 1)
30 for i in *.tar.gz;do tar xfz $i -C mfc${_model};done || return 1
31 cd mfc${_model} || return 1
32 cd usr/local/Brother/Printer/mfc${_model} || return 1
33 perl -i -pe 's#/etc/init.d#/etc/rc.d#g' ./cupswrapper/cupswrappermfc${_model} || return 1
34 perl -i -pe 's#printcap\.local#printcap#g' $srcdir/mfc${_model}/usr/local/Brother/Printer/mfc${_model}/inf/setupPrintcapij || return 1
35}
36
37package() {
38 cp -rf $srcdir/mfc${_model}/usr/ $pkgdir/ || return 1
39}
40

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
2026-11-01 00:21:48 Low 2
2026-10-31 00:07:41 Low 2
2026-10-30 00:29:30 Low 2
2026-10-29 00:13:55 Low 2
2026-10-28 00:06:54 Low 2
2026-10-27 00:23:28 Low 2
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2026-10-16 00:12:47 Low 2
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