brother-mfc6490cw-lpr

LOW

maintainer m4ng0squ4sh 2 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The package downloads a Brother official LPR driver .deb from download.brother.com, a legitimate vendor domain; despite the non-whitelisted host, this is a standard source for proprietary drivers, and the build process only extracts and relocates files without executing remote code.

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 official LPR driver .deb from download.brother.com, a legitimate vendor domain; despite the non-whitelisted host, this is a standard source for proprietary drivers, and the build process only extracts and relocates files without executing remote code.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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=("http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf006180/${_printer}lpr-${_version}.i386.deb")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Contributor: Mark Doe <mark.doe.priv@gmail.com>
    
      2# Contributor: Benjamin Bukowski <crankidiot(at)gmail.com>
    
      3
    
      4_printer=mfc6490cw
    
      5pkgname=brother-${_printer}-lpr
    
      6pkgver=1.1.2_2
    
      7_version=${pkgver//_/-}
    
      8pkgrel=3
    
      9pkgdesc="LPR driver for Brother MFC-6490CW multifunction network printer"
    
      10arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
    
      11url="http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/download_prn.html#MFC-6490CW"
    
      12license=('GPL')
    
      13depends=('tcsh')
    
      14source=("http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf006180/${_printer}lpr-${_version}.i386.deb")
    
      15md5sums=('781e72e8e451bbdb4db39a0967ec1dd6')
    
      16
    
      17package() {
    
      18  cd $srcdir
    
      19
    
      20  ar x ${_printer}lpr-${_version}.i386.deb || return 1
    
      21  [ ! -d "data" ] &&  mkdir data
    
      22  tar -xzvf data.tar.gz -C data || return 1
    
      23
    
      24  [ ! -d "data/usr/share" ] && mkdir data/usr/share
    
      25  mv data/usr/local/Brother data/usr/share/brother
    
      26  rm -r data/usr/local
    
      27  sed -i 's|/usr/local/Brother|/usr/share/brother|g' `grep -lr '/usr/local/Brother' data/` || return 1
    
      28
    
      29  cp -r data/usr $pkgdir || return 1
    
      30}
    
      31

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Low	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Low	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Low	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Low	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Low	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Low	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Low	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Low	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Low	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Low	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Low	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Low	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Low	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Low	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Low	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Low	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Low	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Low	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Low	2
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Low	2