brother-mfc-j5845dw

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

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a Brother printer driver .deb from the official brother.com domain, which is not on the whitelist but is the legitimate vendor; the driver files are extracted and installed without executing remote code, posing minimal risk.

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 a Brother printer driver .deb from the official brother.com domain, which is not on the whitelist but is the legitimate vendor; the driver files are extracted and installed without executing remote code, posing minimal risk.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:10 source=("https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf103885/mfcj5845dwpdrv-1.0.0-0.i386.deb")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Elier Lopez <elier.lopezg@hotmail.com>
    
      2pkgname=brother-mfc-j5845dw
    
      3pkgver=1.0.0
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="LPR driver and CUPS wrapper for Brother MFC-J5845DW printer"
    
      6arch=("i686" "x86_64")
    
      7url="https://support.brother.com/g/b/producttop.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=mfcj5845dw_us"
    
      8license=("EULA")
    
      9groups=("base-devel")
    
      10source=("https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf103885/mfcj5845dwpdrv-1.0.0-0.i386.deb")
    
      11md5sums=("1a273e62c454f8000e79350cd8bfe57e")
    
      12depends=()
    
      13depends_x86_64=('lib32-glibc')
    
      14optdepends=('brscan4')
    
      15
    
      16pkgver() {
    
      17    printf "%s" $pkgver
    
      18}
    
      19
    
      20package() {
    
      21        tar -xf data.tar.gz -C "${pkgdir}"
    
      22        install -m 755 -D "${pkgdir}/opt/brother/Printers/mfcj5845dw/cupswrapper/brother_mfcj5845dw_printer_en.ppd" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/ppd/cupsfilters/brother_mfcj5845dw_printer_en.ppd"
    
      23        install -m 755 -D "${pkgdir}/opt/brother/Printers/mfcj5845dw/cupswrapper/brother_lpdwrapper_mfcj5845dw" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/cups/filter/brother_lpdwrapper_mfcj5845dw"
    
      24}
    
      25

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