While I'm not sure whether that includes any backported security fixes or not, you're right that this is concerning. Perhaps building it yourself is the way to go.
>I use upstream ESR ever since FF disabled add-ons since they let their cert expire [5]
Unless I'm mistaken that bug would have bitten you on ESR as well. The expired certificate was an intermediate used to sign most of the addons on AMO. If ESR wasn't using that certificate then it wouldn't have been able to validate those addons. Correct me if I'm wrong.