vulnerability

Arch Linux: Certificate verification bypass (CVE-2016-5284)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Sep 22, 2016
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

Due to flaws in the process used to update "Preloaded Public Key Pinning", the pinning for add-on updates became ineffective in early September. An attacker who was able to get a mis-issued certificate for a Mozilla web site could send malicious add-on updates to users on networks controlled by the attacker. Users who have not installed any add-ons are not affected.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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