dell-venue-8-pro-5830-wifi-firmware

LOW

maintainer cyrozap 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads firmware files from Dell's official support domain and a GitHub repository; while the Dell host is non-standard, the files are non-executable firmware data, not code, and are used as intended by the hardware vendor.

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 firmware files from Dell's official support domain and a GitHub repository; while the Dell host is non-standard, the files are non-executable firmware data, not code, and are used as intended by the hardware vendor.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:9 source=("https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER04119992M/1/5830_Network_Driver_FG0HG_WN32_3.7.2.63715_A06.EXE"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Forest Crossman <cyrozap at gmail dot com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=dell-venue-8-pro-5830-wifi-firmware
    
      4pkgver=1
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="Firmware for the AR6004 WiFi controller in Dell Venue 8 Pro (5830 series) tablets"
    
      7arch=('any')
    
      8license=('custom')
    
      9source=("https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER04119992M/1/5830_Network_Driver_FG0HG_WN32_3.7.2.63715_A06.EXE"
    
      10        "https://github.com/qca/ath6kl-firmware/raw/2e02576c1dab6fd35118eea1004f50aaaed3794f/ath6k/AR6004/hw3.0/fw-5.bin")
    
      11sha256sums=("f5c6be179509d12b119ea171502fb6dabc391a88c4e3bf7812c7461d94147a8f"
    
      12            "c2ea9b6fcadccd268fd8838f68a9cff80a6020f1dd60095a3a59bd8f437445f1")
    
      13
    
      14package() {
    
      15  install -Dm 644 \
    
      16    drivers/production/Windows8.1-x86/WLAN-Driver/boardDatav3_0.bin \
    
      17    "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/firmware/ath6k/AR6004/hw3.0/bdata.bin"
    
      18  install -Dm 644 \
    
      19    fw-5.bin \
    
      20    "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/firmware/ath6k/AR6004/hw3.0/fw-5.bin"
    
      21}
    
      22

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