brother-mfc-9465cdn
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
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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)
source_untrusted_domain
One or more source=() URLs point to a host outside the trusted allowlist (github.com, gitlab.com, codeberg.org, pypi.org, …).
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PKGBUILD:19
source=("http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfc${_model}lpr-${pkgver}-${_revision}.i386.deb"
PKGBUILD
1 offending line(s) highlighted# Maintainer: Taras Ulakhovich <taras.ulakhovich@gmail.com>
# Based on brother-mfc-9460cdn package from AUR
_model="9465cdn"
pkgname="brother-mfc-$_model"
pkgver="1.1.1"
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="LPR and CUPS driver for the Brother MFC-9465CDN"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html"
license=('unknown')
depends=('tcsh' 'deb2targz' 'perl' 'a2ps')
if test "$CARCH" == x86_64; then
depends+=(lib32-glibc)
fi
install="brother-mfc-${_model}.install"
_revision=5
source=("http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfc${_model}lpr-${pkgver}-${_revision}.i386.deb"
"http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfc${_model}cupswrapper-${pkgver}-${_revision}.i386.deb")
md5sums=('d5bfd57216e53cfaf7c04de42055209e'
'31480002670c88352c3525a37d678bea')
build() {
deb2targz *.deb >/dev/null || return 1
rm -f *.deb || return 1
cd $srcdir || return 1
[ -d "mfc${_model}" ] || (mkdir mfc${_model} || return 1)
for i in *.tar.gz;do tar xfz $i -C mfc${_model};done || return 1
cd mfc${_model} || return 1
cd usr/local/Brother/Printer/mfc${_model} || return 1
perl -i -pe 's#/etc/init.d#/etc/rc.d#g' ./cupswrapper/cupswrappermfc${_model} || return 1
perl -i -pe 's#printcap\.local#printcap#g' $srcdir/mfc${_model}/usr/local/Brother/Printer/mfc${_model}/inf/setupPrintcapij || return 1
}
package() {
cp -rf $srcdir/mfc${_model}/usr/ $pkgdir/ || return 1
}
Scan history
| Scanned at (UTC) | Severity | Rules |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2026-10-26 00:12:40 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-10-25 00:20:48 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-10-24 00:14:55 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-10-23 00:02:19 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-10-22 00:13:10 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-10-21 00:12:50 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-10-20 00:10:31 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-10-19 00:03:55 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-10-18 00:06:55 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-10-17 00:21:55 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-10-16 00:12:47 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-10-15 00:28:05 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-10-14 00:06:47 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-10-13 00:23:45 | Low | 2 |