brother-mfc-9465cdn

maintainer ulaktar · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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)	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