xerox-workcentre-5845-5855

maintainer gmanev · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a Windows .exe driver from Xerox's official support domain, but the host is flagged as non-standard; however, it extracts and installs only PPD (PostScript Printer Description) files used by CUPS, which are configuration data, not executable code, limiting the risk even if the source were swapped.

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 a Windows .exe driver from Xerox's official support domain, but the host is flagged as non-standard; however, it extracts and installs only PPD (PostScript Printer Description) files used by CUPS, which are configuration data, not executable code, limiting the risk even if the source were swapped.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:8 source=("http://download.support.xerox.com/pub/drivers/WC58XA/drivers/win10/en_GB/WC58XX_${pkgver}_PPD_English.exe")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Gancho Manev <gmanev@designer.bg>
    
      2pkgname=xerox-workcentre-5845-5855
    
      3pkgver=5.482.0.0
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="Xerox WorkCentre 5845/5855 printer driver for CUPS"
    
      6arch=("x86_64")
    
      7url="http://www.support.xerox.com/support/workcentre-5845-5855"
    
      8source=("http://download.support.xerox.com/pub/drivers/WC58XA/drivers/win10/en_GB/WC58XX_${pkgver}_PPD_English.exe")
    
      9license=('custom')
    
      10sha512sums=('b965a5131f6e655e9c2229071c73b575e58ae9b3f2e2284511f6b5cea8c492c754366c007d69ae34ba87d405bedb3e54847619a877901262da57b177cdb37d2d')
    
      11makedepends=('unrar')
    
      12depends=('libcups')
    
      13
    
      14prepare() {
    
      15    cd ${srcdir}
    
      16    unrar e -y WC58XX_${pkgver}_PPD_English.exe *.ppd
    
      17}
    
      18
    
      19package() {
    
      20    _targetdir=${pkgdir}/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/PPD/Xerox
    
      21    cd ${srcdir}
    
      22    install -d --mode=755 "${_targetdir}"
    
      23    install --mode=644 --target-directory="${_targetdir}" *.ppd
    
      24}
    
      25

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	LOW	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	LOW	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	LOW	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	LOW	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	2