cnijfilter-ip4500
The package downloads a source tarball from a Canon Europe domain, which is plausibly the official project host despite not being on a standard whitelist; the content is a driver package built and patched locally, with no evidence of malicious or unverifiable executable payloads.
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 a source tarball from a Canon Europe domain, which is plausibly the official project host despite not being on a standard whitelist; the content is a driver package built and patched locally, with no evidence of malicious or unverifiable executable payloads.
1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:19
source=('https://files.canon-europe.com/files/soft28476/software/28476.tgz'
PKGBUILD
1 offending line(s) highlighted# Contributor: lynix <lynix47@gmail.com>
pkgname=cnijfilter-ip4500
pkgver=2.80
pkgrel=6
pkgdesc="Canon IJ Printer Driver for Pixma IP4700 series Inkjet Printers"
arch=('x86_64')
url="http://software.canon-europe.com/software/0028476.asp"
license=('custom')
# libs extracted via
# for L in $(ldd32 /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonij | awk '{print $3}' | grep lib); do pacman -Qo $L; done | awk '{print $4}' | sort | uniq
depends=('lib32-libpng12' 'cups' 'lib32-e2fsprogs' 'lib32-glibc' 'lib32-gnutls'
'lib32-libcups' 'lib32-libgcrypt' 'lib32-libgpg-error'
'lib32-libtasn1' 'lib32-openssl' 'lib32-popt' 'lib32-sqlite' 'lib32-zlib'
'lib32-libtiff4')
makedepends=('rpmextract' 'patchelf')
source=('https://files.canon-europe.com/files/soft28476/software/28476.tgz'
'canonip4500.ppd.patch')
install=cnijfilter-ip4500.install
md5sums=('5daca73347d7db20920f4fdcd661c33c'
'9378f8b1d4ff3992f3d87c7ebfe04502')
build() {
cd ${srcdir}
rm *.deb
rpmextract.sh cnijfilter-common-${pkgver}-1.i386.rpm || return 1
rpmextract.sh cnijfilter-ip4500series-${pkgver}-1.i386.rpm || return 1
#cp -ar usr/local/* usr/ && rm -r usr/local || return 1
mv usr/lib usr/lib32
mkdir -p usr/lib/cups
mv usr/lib32/cups/filter usr/lib/cups
mv usr/lib32/bjlib usr/lib
patch usr/share/cups/model/canonip4500.ppd ${startdir}/canonip4500.ppd.patch || return 1
patchelf --replace-needed libtiff.so.3 libtiff.so.4 usr/local/bin/cifip4500 || return 1
}
package() {
mv ${srcdir}/usr ${pkgdir}
}
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 |