brscan2

LOW

maintainer pmattern 38 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads prebuilt RPMs from Brother's official download domain, which is a legitimate source for proprietary drivers; although the host is not on a standard whitelist, the content is a binary driver from the vendor itself, not an obfuscated payload or untrusted executable, and the worst case of a swapped source would be malicious code execution, but the source is from the official vendor's domain, making this a low-risk, typical AUR package for proprietary software.

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 prebuilt RPMs from Brother's official download domain, which is a legitimate source for proprietary drivers; although the host is not on a standard whitelist, the content is a binary driver from the vendor itself, not an obfuscated payload or untrusted executable, and the worst case of a swapped source would be malicious code execution, but the source is from the official vendor's domain, making this a low-risk, typical AUR package for proprietary software.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:16 source_i686=("http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf006639/$pkgname-${pkgver/_/-}.i386.rpm")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer:  Peter Mattern <pmattern at arcor dot de>
    
      2# Contributor: libernux <dutchman55 at gmx dot com>
    
      3# Contributor: Olaf Leidinger <leidola at newcon dot de>
    
      4# Contributor: Hervé Cauwelier <herve at oursours dot net>
    
      5# Contributor: Marc Straube <dev at marcstraube dot de>
    
      6
    
      7pkgname=brscan2
    
      8pkgver=0.2.5_1
    
      9pkgrel=1
    
      10pkgdesc="SANE driver from Brother for $pkgname models"
    
      11arch=("i686" "x86_64")
    
      12url="http://support.brother.com"
    
      13license=("custom:Brother" "GPL")
    
      14depends=("libusb-compat" "sane")
    
      15install=brscan2.install
    
      16source_i686=("http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf006639/$pkgname-${pkgver/_/-}.i386.rpm")
    
      17sha256sums_i686=("f9c12f8467288c48cd00b532b2c64f53764a001f4b193f1c5f1ac746a1bd7c9c")
    
      18source_x86_64=("http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf006640/$pkgname-${pkgver/_/-}.x86_64.rpm")
    
      19sha256sums_x86_64=("ab02c4e2292e9847a0338a225973735ccaec49c3d443f584004c8f91f5d6a8c9")
    
      20
    
      21prepare() {
    
      22
    
      23  # adjust use of lib64 to habits on Arch Linux x86_64
    
      24
    
      25  if [ "$CARCH" == x86_64 ] ; then
    
      26
    
      27    # path
    
      28    mv usr/lib64 usr/lib
    
      29
    
      30    # symbolic links
    
      31    cd usr/lib
    
      32    ln -sf /usr/lib/libbrcolm2.so.1         libbrcolm2.so
    
      33    ln -sf /usr/lib/libbrcolm2.so.1.0.1     libbrcolm2.so.1
    
      34    ln -sf /usr/lib/libbrscandec2.so.1      libbrscandec2.so
    
      35    ln -sf /usr/lib/libbrscandec2.so.1.0.0  libbrscandec2.so.1
    
      36    cd sane
    
      37    ln -sf /usr/lib/sane/libsane-brother2.so.1      libsane-brother2.so
    
      38    ln -sf /usr/lib/sane/libsane-brother2.so.1.0.7  libsane-brother2.so.1
    
      39
    
      40  fi
    
      41}
    
      42
    
      43package() {
    
      44    cp -a usr $pkgdir
    
      45    install -D -m644 $startdir/brother-eula.txt \
    
      46      $pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE
    
      47}
    
      48

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