brother-mfc-j480dw

maintainer stick · 5 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads official Brother printer driver RPMs from brother.com's download subdomain, which is a legitimate source for this hardware; the non-whitelisted host is plausibly official, and the drivers are self-contained binaries meant to be installed as-is, with no obfuscated code or remote execution.

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's download subdomain, which is a legitimate source for this hardware; the non-whitelisted host is plausibly official, and the drivers are self-contained binaries meant to be installed as-is, with no obfuscated code or remote execution.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:24 "http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf102092/mfcj480dwcupswrapper-$pkgver-$pkgrel.i386.rpm"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Stick <stick at stma dot is>
    
      2# Contributor: Eric Lehmann <katyl@katyl.info>
    
      3# Contributor: Peter Vasil <mail@petervasil.net>
    
      4# shellcheck disable=SC2034,SC2148,SC2154
    
      5
    
      6_printer="MFC-J480DW"
    
      7pkgname="brother-${_printer,,}"
    
      8pkgver="1.0.0"
    
      9pkgrel=0
    
      10pkgdesc="CUPS and LPR drivers for the Brother $_printer printer"
    
      11url="https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=mfcj480dw_us_eu_as&os=127"
    
      12arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
    
      13license=('custom:brother commercial license')
    
      14depends=('cups' 'ghostscript' 'a2ps')
    
      15optdepends=('brscan4: Scanner support')
    
      16
    
      17if test "$CARCH" == x86_64; then
    
      18	depends+=('lib32-glibc')
    
      19fi
    
      20
    
      21install="brother-${_printer,,}.install"
    
      22
    
      23source=(
    
      24	"http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf102092/mfcj480dwcupswrapper-$pkgver-$pkgrel.i386.rpm"
    
      25	"http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf102091/mfcj480dwlpr-$pkgver-$pkgrel.i386.rpm"
    
      26	'cupswrapper-license.txt'
    
      27	'lpr-license.txt'
    
      28)
    
      29sha256sums=(
    
      30	'2a18c4943adc92a2e97f674a638dbdfb87656137a97073577f716ace6a196854'
    
      31	'2a1e03b59d6af9dc8d67a9799f06ab439e67565410373081f2f8be65eb697a64'
    
      32	'2c6aa6a641332e5c87e971ac2a8beae13b059747bdba331bbd515914770d72d9'
    
      33	'9d85a8aafdaac8fac80e04234ad2acf5642bbf0b91ee582d2a89519a55f6dd67'
    
      34)
    
      35
    
      36
    
      37prepare() {
    
      38	# do not install in '/usr/local'
    
      39	if [ -d "$srcdir/usr/local/Brother" ]; then
    
      40		install -d "$srcdir/usr/share"
    
      41		mv "$srcdir/usr/local/Brother/" "$srcdir/usr/share/brother"
    
      42		rm -rf "${srcdir:?}/usr/local"
    
      43		sed -i 's|/usr/local/Brother|/usr/share/brother|g' "$(grep -lr '/usr/local/Brother' ./)"
    
      44	fi
    
      45	# set up cups-directories
    
      46	install -d "$srcdir/usr/share/cups/model"
    
      47	install -d "$srcdir/usr/lib/cups/filter"
    
      48	# find source file in cupswrapper directory
    
      49	cd "$(find . -type d -name 'cupswrapper')" || exit
    
      50	_wrapper_source="$(find . -name "cupswrapper*")"
    
      51	# generate ppd- and wrapper- files
    
      52	sed -i '/^\/etc\/init.d\/cups/d' "$_wrapper_source"
    
      53	sed -i '/^sleep/d' "$_wrapper_source"
    
      54	sed -i '/^lpadmin/d' "$_wrapper_source"
    
      55	# shellcheck disable=2016
    
      56	sed -i 's|/usr|$srcdir/usr|g' "$_wrapper_source"
    
      57	# shellcheck disable=2016
    
      58	sed -i 's|/opt|$srcdir/opt|g' "$_wrapper_source"
    
      59	sed -i 's|/model/Brother|/model|g' "$_wrapper_source"
    
      60	sed -i 's|lpinfo|echo|g' "$_wrapper_source"
    
      61	export srcdir="$srcdir"
    
      62	./"$_wrapper_source"
    
      63	# shellcheck disable=2016
    
      64	sed -i 's|$srcdir||' "$srcdir"/usr/lib/cups/filter/*lpdwrapper*
    
      65	sed -i "s|$srcdir||" "$srcdir"/usr/lib/cups/filter/*lpdwrapper*
    
      66	rm "$_wrapper_source"
    
      67	#  /etc/printcap is managed by cups
    
      68	rm "$(find "$srcdir" -type f -name 'setupPrintcap*')"
    
      69}
    
      70package() {
    
      71	cp -R "$srcdir/usr" "$pkgdir"
    
      72	[ -d "$srcdir/opt" ] && cp -R "$srcdir/opt" "$pkgdir"
    
      73	install -m 644 -D cupswrapper-license.txt "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/cupswrapper-licence.txt"
    
      74	install -m 644 -D lpr-license.txt "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/lpr-licence.txt"
    
      75}
    
      76

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