brother-mfc-l2710dw

MEDIUM

maintainer robertfoster 8 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt vendor binary (RPM) from a non-whitelisted but official brother.com domain; while the source is unverifiable and carries supply-chain risk, it is not actively malicious or obfuscated.

Triggered rules

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:19 source=("https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf103525/mfcl2710dwpdrv-$pkgver-$_srcrel.i386.rpm")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt vendor binary (RPM) from a non-whitelisted but official brother.com domain; while the source is unverifiable and carries supply-chain risk, it is not actively malicious or obfuscated.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: robertfoster
    
      2# Contributor: Engine Feeder <enginefeeder101@gmail.com>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname='brother-mfc-l2710dw'
    
      5pkgver='4.0.0'
    
      6pkgrel=2
    
      7_srcrel=1
    
      8_model='MFCL2710DW'
    
      9pkgdesc='LPR and CUPS driver for the Brother MFC-L2710DW'
    
      10url='https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=mfcl2710dw_us_eu_as'
    
      11arch=('i686' 'x86_64' 'armv7h')
    
      12license=('LicenseRef-Brother-EULA')
    
      13# lpdwrapper and lpdfilter are perl and shell out to `gs`; the ppd declares a
    
      14# cupsFilter for application/vnd.cups-postscript, which needs cups-filters
    
      15depends=('cups' 'cups-filters' 'ghostscript' 'perl')
    
      16# prebuilt vendor binaries
    
      17options=('!strip')
    
      18install="$pkgname.install"
    
      19source=("https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf103525/mfcl2710dwpdrv-$pkgver-$_srcrel.i386.rpm")
    
      20sha256sums=('8794c62d8481e8b2954e2b48815278731fea6510684b639608f66314438ada62')
    
      21
    
      22package() {
    
      23  # the i386 rpm carries one binary directory per architecture
    
      24  local _binarch
    
      25  case "$CARCH" in
    
      26    armv7h) _binarch='armv7l' ;;
    
      27    *) _binarch="$CARCH" ;;
    
      28  esac
    
      29
    
      30  # using /usr/share instead of /opt
    
      31  local _dir="usr/share/brother/Printers/$_model"
    
      32  install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/brother/Printers"
    
      33  cp -a "$srcdir/opt/brother/Printers/$_model" "$pkgdir/$_dir"
    
      34
    
      35  # both filters derive the printer name from their own path with an
    
      36  # s|^\/opt\/.*\/Printers\/|| regex
    
      37  sed -i 's|\\/opt\\/|\\/usr\\/|' \
    
      38    "$pkgdir/$_dir/cupswrapper/lpdwrapper" \
    
      39    "$pkgdir/$_dir/lpd/lpdfilter"
    
      40
    
      41  # /etc/printcap is managed by cups
    
      42  rm "$pkgdir/$_dir/inf/setupPrintcap"
    
      43
    
      44  # ship only the binaries for the architecture we are building for
    
      45  find "$pkgdir/$_dir/lpd" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d ! -name "$_binarch" \
    
      46    -exec rm -r {} +
    
      47
    
      48  # lpdfilter and lpdwrapper look for these directly under lpd/
    
      49  ln -s "$_binarch/brprintconflsr3" "$pkgdir/$_dir/lpd/"
    
      50  ln -s "$_binarch/rawtobr3" "$pkgdir/$_dir/lpd/"
    
      51  # brprintconflsr3 resolves inf/ relative to its own directory
    
      52  ln -s '../inf' "$pkgdir/$_dir/lpd/inf"
    
      53
    
      54  # the ppd names this filter; realpath() of it yields the model directory
    
      55  install -d "$pkgdir/usr/lib/cups/filter"
    
      56  ln -s "/$_dir/cupswrapper/lpdwrapper" \
    
      57    "$pkgdir/usr/lib/cups/filter/brother_lpdwrapper_$_model"
    
      58
    
      59  install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/cups/model"
    
      60  ln -s "/$_dir/cupswrapper/brother-$_model-cups-en.ppd" \
    
      61    "$pkgdir/usr/share/cups/model/"
    
      62
    
      63  install -Dm644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname" \
    
      64    "$srcdir/opt/brother/Printers/$_model/LICENSE_ENG.txt" \
    
      65    "$srcdir/opt/brother/Printers/$_model/cupswrapper/Copying"
    
      66}
    
      67

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2026-11-01 00:21:48	Medium	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Medium	2
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2026-10-29 00:13:55	Medium	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Medium	2
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