brother-mfcj245
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
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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)
source_untrusted_domain
One or more source=() URLs point to a host outside the trusted allowlist (github.com, gitlab.com, codeberg.org, pypi.org, …).
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PKGBUILD:20
"http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfcj245lpr-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm" \
PKGBUILD
1 offending line(s) highlighted# Contributor: bilux <i.bilux@gmail.com>
# Maintainer: bilux <i.bilux@gmail.com>
pkgname=brother-mfcj245
pkgver=3.0.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Driver for the Brother MFC-j245 wifi multifuncional printer"
url="http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html"
license=('custom:brother')
depends=('a2ps' 'cups')
install="brother-mfcj245.install"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
md5sums=('b890daa9317b3cbec2e0a077b4be221f'
'514702c4b09b195a1a6fbe67f8327bd9'
'31c4664b7f0eb6751decf1d04819c100')
source=(
"./fix_lp.patch" \
"http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfcj245lpr-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm" \
"http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfcj245cupswrapper-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm"
)
build() {
cd "$srcdir"
patch -Np0 < fix_lp.patch
}
post_install() {
/opt/brother/Printers/mfcj245/cupswrapper/cupswrappermfcj245
}
package()
{
install -d $pkgdir/usr/bin
install -d $pkgdir/var/spool/lpd
install -Dm755 "$srcdir"/usr/bin/brprintconf_mfcj245 "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/
cp -R $srcdir/opt $pkgdir/opt
}
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 |