brother-mfcj835dw-lpr-bin

LOW

maintainer victortrac 1 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The source is a prebuilt .deb from Brother's official download domain, which is plausibly the project's own release infrastructure; installing printer drivers from the manufacturer is standard, and the worst case of a swapped source is a malicious binary driver, but the host is official and the package does not execute arbitrary 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 source is a prebuilt .deb from Brother's official download domain, which is plausibly the project's own release infrastructure; installing printer drivers from the manufacturer is standard, and the worst case of a swapped source is a malicious binary driver, but the host is official and the package does not execute arbitrary 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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:12 source=("https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf006630/mfcj835dwlpr-3.0.1-1.i386.deb")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Victor Trac <victor.trac@gmail.com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=brother-mfcj835dw-lpr-bin
    
      4pkgver=3.0.1
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="LPR driver for Brother MFC-J835DW printer"
    
      7arch=("i686" "x86_64")
    
      8url="https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=mfcj835dw_us&os=128"
    
      9license=("EULA")
    
      10depends=("cups" "cups-filters")
    
      11groups=("base-devel")
    
      12source=("https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf006630/mfcj835dwlpr-3.0.1-1.i386.deb")
    
      13md5sums=("a04745cfcc2dc529c9b9397f638c5bb5")
    
      14
    
      15package() {
    
      16  tar -xf data.tar.gz -C "${pkgdir}"
    
      17  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/cups/filter/"
    
      18  ln -s "/opt/brother/Printers/mfcj835dw/lpd/filtermfcj835dw" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/cups/filter/brother_lpdwrapper_mfcj835dw"
    
      19}
    
      20

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