brother-mfc-l8900cdw

maintainer Bonnee · 2 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads official Brother printer drivers from the vendor's own download domain, which is plausible and expected for proprietary hardware support; although checksums are skipped, the source is from the legitimate vendor and installs only configuration files, PPDs, and a binary wrapper, with no evidence of malicious behavior.

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 drivers from the vendor's own download domain, which is plausible and expected for proprietary hardware support; although checksums are skipped, the source is from the legitimate vendor and installs only configuration files, PPDs, and a binary wrapper, with no evidence of malicious behavior.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:14 source=(https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf103216/mfcl8900cdwlpr-${pkgver}-0.i386.rpm

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Matteo Bonora <bonora.matteo@gmail.com>
    
      2
    
      3_model="l8900cdw"
    
      4pkgname="brother-mfc-${_model}"
    
      5pkgver="1.5.0"
    
      6pkgrel=2
    
      7epoch=2
    
      8pkgdesc="LPR and CUPS driver for the Brother MFC-L8900CDW"
    
      9url="http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html"
    
      10arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
    
      11license=('GPL2' 'custom:Brother EULA')
    
      12depends=('cups')
    
      13depends_x86_64=('lib32-glibc')
    
      14source=(https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf103216/mfcl8900cdwlpr-${pkgver}-0.i386.rpm
    
      15        https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf103225/mfcl8900cdwcupswrapper-${pkgver}-0.i386.rpm)
    
      16sha256sums=('SKIP'
    
      17            'SKIP')
    
      18
    
      19package() {
    
      20  install -d ${pkgdir}/usr/share/cups/model/Brother
    
      21  install -d ${pkgdir}/usr/share/ppd/Brother
    
      22  install -d ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/cups/filter
    
      23
    
      24  install -Dm755 ${srcdir}/opt/brother/Printers/mfc${_model}/lpd/${CARCH}/brprintconf_mfc${_model}  ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/brprintconf_mfc${_model}
    
      25  install -Dm644 ${srcdir}/opt/brother/Printers/mfc${_model}/cupswrapper/brother_mfc${_model}_printer_en.ppd ${pkgdir}/usr/share/cups/model/Brother
    
      26  install -Dm644 ${srcdir}/opt/brother/Printers/mfc${_model}/cupswrapper/brother_mfc${_model}_printer_en.ppd ${pkgdir}/usr/share/ppd/Brother
    
      27
    
      28  ln -s /opt/brother/Printers/mfc${_model}/cupswrapper/brother_lpdwrapper_mfc${_model} ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/cups/filter/brother_lpdwrapper_mfc${_model}
    
      29
    
      30  cp -r ${srcdir}/opt ${pkgdir}/opt
    
      31}
    
      32

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