Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Updating Centos Application related to security

While a Centos Linux server version is still supported, its application security updates is provided by the distro and its related repository. Application security updates are maintained by most large projects such as Apache HTTPD 2.4 and Supervisor.

Side note, there is a nice article on use of CentOS Stream at crunchtools.

Few things that can be done.

Identify the installed Centos.

uname -r

cat /etc/redhat-release


View latest security advisory CVEs.

yum updateinfo list cves

sudo dnf updateinfo list security

sudo dnf list-security

If above information doesn't show any applications, then there are no security related updates. General updates is viewed with

sudo dnf updateinfo list


Check update for HTTPD. As shown below, there is an available package for update, but no CVE is ragged..

dnf check-update httpd

dnf info httpd


In this next example, there is a CVE tagged to the update. 

dnf check-update supervisor

dnf info supervisor


Information on the update is available.
dnf updateinfo info FEDORA-EPEL-2021-1ad3a13e05

View installed notes on application updates.

rpm -q --changelog httpd

rpm -q --changelog supervisor

The said changes can then be updated

sudo dnf update supervisor






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