xerox-workcentre-78xx

LOW

maintainer oniram 4 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The package downloads a Windows driver executable from Xerox's official support domain to extract PPD files for CUPS; despite the non-whitelisted host, the source is from the vendor's official download infrastructure and installs only printer configuration data, not executable 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 package downloads a Windows driver executable from Xerox's official support domain to extract PPD files for CUPS; despite the non-whitelisted host, the source is from the vendor's official download infrastructure and installs only printer configuration data, not executable 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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:11 source=("$pkgname.exe::http://download.support.xerox.com/pub/drivers/WC780XI/drivers/win10/ar/WC78XX_${pkgver}_PPD_English.exe"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Pieter Goetschalckx <3.14.e.ter <at> gmail <dot> com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=xerox-workcentre-78xx
    
      4pkgver=5.482.0.0
    
      5pkgrel=2
    
      6pkgdesc="Xerox WorkCentre 7830/7835/7845/7855 printer driver for CUPS"
    
      7arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
    
      8url="http://www.support.xerox.com/support/workcentre-7800-series/downloads/enus.html?associatedProduct=WorkCentre-78xx-built-in+controller&operatingSystem=linux"
    
      9license=('custom')
    
      10makedepends=('unrar')
    
      11source=("$pkgname.exe::http://download.support.xerox.com/pub/drivers/WC780XI/drivers/win10/ar/WC78XX_${pkgver}_PPD_English.exe"
    
      12        "LICENSE.txt"
    
      13        "0001-auto-tray.patch"
    
      14        "0002-color-option.patch")
    
      15sha256sums=('75ab5388dfe513732bd05cbaeb47196345ae26886d59c7d96b92749b6de08f9a'
    
      16            '2389b75bf45ba6f1329ad236110d7e1d496308cc484ee87b93c998a2573fd45b'
    
      17            '29392c8ba7f84b6b6e283089175d90606f2ef9d8c236dd1a310b9d1738c6ff0c'
    
      18            'ab1a4eeb26b93536dd4c88b365663d49c886b67e32680a8611d89d37b78e0d62')
    
      19
    
      20prepare() {
    
      21  unrar x "$pkgname.exe"
    
      22  # Add new auto setting to "Paper Tray"
    
      23  patch -p1 -i 0001-auto-tray.patch
    
      24  # Add grayscale/color printing option
    
      25  patch -p1 -i 0002-color-option.patch
    
      26}
    
      27
    
      28package() {
    
      29  install -Dm644 "xrx7830.ppd" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/ppd/xerox/xrx7830.ppd"
    
      30  install -Dm644 "xrx7835.ppd" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/ppd/xerox/xrx7835.ppd"
    
      31  install -Dm644 "xrx7845.ppd" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/ppd/xerox/xrx7845.ppd"
    
      32  install -Dm644 "xrx7855.ppd" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/ppd/xerox/xrx7855.ppd"
    
      33  install -Dm644 "LICENSE.txt" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/xerox-workcentre-78xx/LICENSE.txt"
    
      34}
    
      35

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