[CentOS] security compliance vs. old software versions

Tue Jun 29 21:15:27 UTC 2010
Kwan Lowe <kwan.lowe at gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> What's the correct response to a security scan that points out that
> apache versions below 2.2.14 have multiple known vulnerabilities?  Is
> there an official document about what known vulnerabilities have been
> fixed in the RHEL/CentOS updates or do you have to wade through the
> changelog to try to find each thing?
>

The upstream vendor backports many fixes. The best thing to do is
reference the CVE number in the changelogs. It's still wading through
a lot of changelogs, but with the CVE you can find it pretty quickly.