Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-9064  

Add-on updates failed to verify that the add-on ID inside the signed package matched the ID of the add-on being updated. An attacker who could perform a man-in-the-middle attack on the user's connection to the update server and defeat the certificate pinning protection could provide a malicious signed add-on instead of a valid update.

Severity High

Remote Yes

Type Insufficient validation

Description

Add-on updates failed to verify that the add-on ID inside the signed package matched the ID of the add-on being updated. An attacker who could perform a man-in-the-middle attack on the user's connection to the update server and defeat the certificate pinning protection could provide a malicious signed add-on instead of a valid update.

AVG-72 firefox 49.0.2-1 50.0-1 Critical Fixed

16 Nov 2016 ASA-201611-16 AVG-72 firefox Critical multiple issues

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/#CVE-2016-9064