[CentOS] Is it fine to upgrade to Centos 6 rpms, being at centos 5.8

[John R. Dennison]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 05:23:50PM +0530, Anumeha Prasad wrote:
> I'm currently at CentOS 5.8. After some penetration testing, found some
> high severity OpenSSH issues which would require its upgrade. But till
> CentOS 5.9 the latest rpm available is openssh-4.3p2-82.el5 (which I'm
> currently using).

Most "penetration testing" is done via lackadaisical auditors using
automated tools that are pretty much completely worthless in the real
world using Enterprise Linux as said tools are unaware of backporting
policies.  What "issues" were you informed of?  They did provide you
with CVE references?

> Is it fine to upgrade to CentOS 6 rpms while I'm on CentOS 5?

No, it is not possible to use C6 binary rpms on a C5 system.





							John
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