brother-mfc-j805dw

LOW

maintainer SolarAquarion 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads a Brother printer driver .deb from an official brother.com subdomain, which is a legitimate source for the software; unpacks and modifies the installation script to fit Arch, then installs it locally—this is standard practice for AUR printer drivers and poses no inherent security risk beyond the trustworthiness of the vendor's provided binary.

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 an official brother.com subdomain, which is a legitimate source for the software; unpacks and modifies the installation script to fit Arch, then installs it locally—this is standard practice for AUR printer drivers and poses no inherent security risk beyond the trustworthiness of the vendor's provided binary.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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 source=("https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf104569/mfcj805dwpdrv-1.0.5-0.i386.deb")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1#!/usr/bin/bash
    
      2# Maintainer: Solomon Choina <shlomochoina@gmail.com>
    
      3pkgname=brother-mfc-j805dw
    
      4pkgver=1.0.5
    
      5pkgrel=3
    
      6pkgdesc="CUPS and LPR driver for Brother mfc-JX05DW(XL) printer"
    
      7arch=("i686" "x86_64")
    
      8depends_x86_64=('lib32-gcc-libs')
    
      9depends=('perl' 'bash')
    
      10optdepends=('brscan4')
    
      11url="https://support.brother.com/g/b/faqtop.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=mfcj805dw_us"
    
      12license=("EULA")
    
      13source=("https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf104569/mfcj805dwpdrv-1.0.5-0.i386.deb")
    
      14sha256sums=('f299b9674d5edb9c16b5fdbfd39d9ed6b6618f2a30ad942181180e59d3e7a68d')
    
      15
    
      16prepare() {
    
      17	tar -xf data.tar.gz -C "$srcdir"
    
      18  install -d $srcdir/usr/share/cups/model
    
      19	install -d $srcdir/usr/lib/cups/filter
    
      20
    
      21 cd `find . -type d -name 'cupswrapper'`
    
      22	if [ -f cupswrapper* ]; then
    
      23		_wrapper_source=`ls cupswrapper*`
    
      24	fi
    
      25
    
      26
    
      27	if [ ! -z $_wrapper_source ];then
    
      28		sed -i '/^\/etc\/init.d\/cups/d' $_wrapper_source
    
      29		sed -i '/^sleep/d' $_wrapper_source
    
      30		sed -i '/^lpadmin/d' $_wrapper_source
    
      31		sed -i 's|/usr|$srcdir/usr|g' $_wrapper_source
    
      32		sed -i 's|/opt|$srcdir/opt|g' $_wrapper_source
    
      33		sed -i 's|lpinfo|echo|g' $_wrapper_source
    
      34		export srcdir=$srcdir
    
      35		./$_wrapper_source
    
      36		sed -i 's|$srcdir||' $srcdir/usr/lib/cups/filter/*lpdwrapper*
    
      37		sed -i "s|$srcdir||" $srcdir/usr/lib/cups/filter/*lpdwrapper*
    
      38		rm $_wrapper_source
    
      39	fi
    
      40
    
      41
    
      42}
    
      43package() {
    
      44       cp -R $srcdir/usr "$pkgdir"
    
      45
    
      46			 if [ -d $srcdir/opt ]; then cp -R $srcdir/opt $pkgdir; fi
    
      47
    
      48       install -D "$pkgdir"/opt/brother/Printers/mfcj805dw/LICENSE_ENG.txt "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname"
    
      49}
    
      50
    
      51
    
      52

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Low	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Low	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Low	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Low	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Low	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Low	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Low	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Low	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Low	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Low	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Low	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Low	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Low	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Low	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Low	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Low	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Low	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Low	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Low	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Low	2