brother-mfc-j4710dw

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

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads official Brother printer driver RPMs from brother.com, a legitimate vendor domain, for building a CUPS driver; the non-whitelisted host is part of Brother's official infrastructure, and the source is not executable code but vendor-provided drivers, making the risk low despite the static analysis flag.

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 RPMs from brother.com, a legitimate vendor domain, for building a CUPS driver; the non-whitelisted host is part of Brother's official infrastructure, and the source is not executable code but vendor-provided drivers, making the risk low despite the static analysis flag.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:13 "http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfcj4710dwlpr-$pkgver-$pkgrel.i386.rpm"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Joachim Nüesch <joachim.nuesch@gmail.com>
    
      2# Copied from the MFC-J470DW package originally created by Libernux <dutchman55@gmx.com> (MFC-J5910DW)
    
      3pkgname="brother-mfc-j4710dw"
    
      4pkgver="3.0.1"
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="LPR and CUPS driver for the Brother MFC-J4710DW"
    
      7arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
    
      8url="http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/"
    
      9license=('custom:brother commercial license')
    
      10depends=('cups')
    
      11install="$pkgname.install"
    
      12source=(
    
      13	"http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfcj4710dwlpr-$pkgver-$pkgrel.i386.rpm"
    
      14	"http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfcj4710dwcupswrapper-$pkgver-$pkgrel.i386.rpm"
    
      15	'cupswrapper-license.txt'
    
      16	'lpr-license.txt'
    
      17)
    
      18sha256sums=('90970907edfabb8a991b37a3c97a16f73c4647aea97f984ba387db5234410e6d'
    
      19            '70cfb79b81be086e78deba45137f67f678ebd0735902672c5e8c787dfa8b11d1'
    
      20            '2c6aa6a641332e5c87e971ac2a8beae13b059747bdba331bbd515914770d72d9'
    
      21            '9d85a8aafdaac8fac80e04234ad2acf5642bbf0b91ee582d2a89519a55f6dd67')
    
      22if test "$CARCH" == x86_64; then
    
      23  depends+=('lib32-glibc')
    
      24fi
    
      25prepare() {
    
      26#  do not install in '/usr/local'
    
      27	if [ -d $srcdir/usr/local/Brother ]; then
    
      28		install -d $srcdir/usr/share
    
      29		mv $srcdir/usr/local/Brother/ $srcdir/usr/share/brother
    
      30		rm -rf $srcdir/usr/local
    
      31	        sed -i 's|/usr/local/Brother|/usr/share/brother|g' `grep -lr '/usr/local/Brother' ./`
    
      32        fi
    
      33# setup cups-directories
    
      34	install -d $srcdir/usr/share/cups/model
    
      35	install -d $srcdir/usr/lib/cups/filter
    
      36#  go to the cupswrapper directory and find the source file from which to generate a ppd- and wrapper-file
    
      37	cd `find . -type d -name 'cupswrapper'`
    
      38	if [ -f cupswrapper* ]; then
    
      39		_wrapper_source=`ls cupswrapper*`
    
      40		sed -i '/^\/etc\/init.d\/cups/d' $_wrapper_source
    
      41		sed -i '/^sleep/d' $_wrapper_source
    
      42		sed -i '/^lpadmin/d' $_wrapper_source
    
      43		sed -i 's|/usr|$srcdir/usr|g' $_wrapper_source
    
      44		sed -i 's|/opt|$srcdir/opt|g' $_wrapper_source
    
      45		sed -i 's|/model/Brother|/model|g' $_wrapper_source
    
      46		sed -i 's|lpinfo|echo|g' $_wrapper_source
    
      47		export srcdir=$srcdir
    
      48		./$_wrapper_source
    
      49		sed -i 's|$srcdir||' $srcdir/usr/lib/cups/filter/*lpdwrapper*
    
      50		sed -i "s|$srcdir||" $srcdir/usr/lib/cups/filter/*lpdwrapper*
    
      51		rm $_wrapper_source
    
      52	fi
    
      53#  /etc/printcap is managed by cups
    
      54	rm `find $srcdir -type f -name 'setupPrintcap*'`
    
      55}
    
      56package() {
    
      57	cp -R $srcdir/usr $pkgdir
    
      58	if [ -d $srcdir/opt ]; then cp -R $srcdir/opt $pkgdir; fi
    
      59	install -m 644 -D cupswrapper-license.txt $pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/cupswrapper-licence.txt
    
      60	install -m 644 -D lpr-license.txt $pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/lpr-licence.txt
    
      61}
    
      62

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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