brother-mfcj245

maintainer bilux · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
LOW
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Why flagged The package downloads official Brother printer driver RPMs from brother.com, a legitimate vendor domain, to build a driver package; despite the non-whitelisted host, this is a standard and expected source for such drivers, and the installed files are confined to printer configuration and spooling.

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 driver RPMs from brother.com, a legitimate vendor domain, to build a driver package; despite the non-whitelisted host, this is a standard and expected source for such drivers, and the installed files are confined to printer configuration and spooling.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:20 "http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfcj245lpr-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm" \

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Contributor: bilux <i.bilux@gmail.com>
2# Maintainer: bilux <i.bilux@gmail.com>
3
4pkgname=brother-mfcj245
5pkgver=3.0.0
6pkgrel=1
7pkgdesc="Driver for the Brother MFC-j245 wifi multifuncional printer"
8url="http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html"
9license=('custom:brother')
10depends=('a2ps' 'cups')
11install="brother-mfcj245.install"
12arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
13
14md5sums=('b890daa9317b3cbec2e0a077b4be221f'
15 '514702c4b09b195a1a6fbe67f8327bd9'
16 '31c4664b7f0eb6751decf1d04819c100')
17
18source=(
19 "./fix_lp.patch" \
20 "http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfcj245lpr-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm" \
21 "http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfcj245cupswrapper-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm"
22)
23
24build() {
25 cd "$srcdir"
26 patch -Np0 < fix_lp.patch
27}
28
29post_install() {
30 /opt/brother/Printers/mfcj245/cupswrapper/cupswrappermfcj245
31}
32
33package()
34{
35 install -d $pkgdir/usr/bin
36 install -d $pkgdir/var/spool/lpd
37 install -Dm755 "$srcdir"/usr/bin/brprintconf_mfcj245 "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/
38 cp -R $srcdir/opt $pkgdir/opt
39}
40
41

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