hplip-minimal

maintainer ayu2805 · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary plugin (.run file) from an official but untrusted host without checksum verification, posing a supply-chain risk if the source were compromised.

Triggered rules

MEDIUM External download from an untrusted host, not in source=() external_download_not_in_source

curl/wget fetches a URL on a non-allowlisted host that is not part of source=(), so it is not checksum-verified by makepkg.

PKGBUILD:25 curl -A "Mozilla/0.0 (Linux x86_64) Chromium/0.0.0.0" -O https://developers.hp.com/sites/default/files/2026-05/hplip-$pkgver-plugin.run

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary plugin (.run file) from an official but untrusted host without checksum verification, posing a supply-chain risk if the source were compromised.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Ayushmaan Padhi
    
      2
    
      3pkgname='hplip-minimal'
    
      4pkgver=3.26.4
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc='Only printer drivers from HPLIP with proprietary binary plugin'
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url='https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/'
    
      9license=('GPL-2.0-only' 'MIT' 'BSD-3-Clause' 'GPL-3.0-only' 'LicenseRef-HPLIP')
    
      10depends=(libcups)
    
      11makedepends=(python libusb cups)
    
      12conflicts=('hplip' 'hplip-lite' 'hplip-plugin')
    
      13provides=('hplip')
    
      14backup=('etc/hp/hplip.conf' 'var/lib/hp/hplip.state')
    
      15optdepends=('cups: for printing support')
    
      16source=(https://downloads.sourceforge.net/hplip/hplip-$pkgver.tar.gz
    
      17		    hplip-pserror-c99.patch
    
      18        hplip-missing-drivers.patch)    
    
      19sha256sums=('SKIP'
    
      20			      'SKIP'
    
      21            'SKIP')
    
      22options=(!makeflags)
    
      23
    
      24prepare() {
    
      25  curl -A "Mozilla/0.0 (Linux x86_64) Chromium/0.0.0.0" -O https://developers.hp.com/sites/default/files/2026-05/hplip-$pkgver-plugin.run
    
      26  sh "hplip-$pkgver-plugin.run" --target "$srcdir/hplip-$pkgver" --noexec
    
      27  
    
      28  cd "hplip-$pkgver"
    
      29  patch -Np1 -i ../hplip-pserror-c99.patch
    
      30  patch -Np1 -i ../hplip-missing-drivers.patch
    
      31  export AUTOMAKE='automake --foreign'
    
      32  autoreconf --force --install
    
      33}
    
      34
    
      35build() {
    
      36  cd "$srcdir/hplip-$pkgver"
    
      37  ./configure -q --prefix=/usr \
    
      38                 --enable-lite-build \
    
      39                 --disable-network-build \
    
      40                 --disable-scan-build \
    
      41                 --disable-doc-build
    
      42  make
    
      43}
    
      44
    
      45package() {
    
      46  cd "hplip-$pkgver"
    
      47  make DESTDIR="$pkgdir/" install
    
      48  install -Dt "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname" -m644 COPYING
    
      49  install -Dt "$pkgdir/usr/share/hplip" -m644 plugin.spec
    
      50  install -Dt "$pkgdir/usr/share/hplip/data/firmware" -m644 hp_laserjet_*.fw.gz
    
      51  install -Dt "$pkgdir/usr/share/hplip/prnt/plugins" -m644 hbpl1-x86_64.so
    
      52  install -Dt "$pkgdir/usr/share/hplip/prnt/plugins" -m644 lj-x86_64.so
    
      53  install -Dt "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname" -m644 license.txt
    
      54
    
      55  echo -e "[plugin]\ninstalled = 1\neula = 1\nversion = $pkgver" | tee hplip.state
    
      56  install -Dm644 -t "$pkgdir/var/lib/hp" hplip.state
    
      57
    
      58  find "$pkgdir/usr/share/hplip" -type f -name "*.so" | while read -r f; do
    
      59    lib_dir="${f%/*}"
    
      60    lib_name="${f##*/}"
    
      61    ln -vsf "$lib_name" "$lib_dir/${lib_name%%-*}.so"
    
      62  done
    
      63}

Scan history

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2026-08-03 00:08:14	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	MEDIUM	2
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2026-07-27 00:24:32	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	MEDIUM	2