[CentOS] Where are the CentOS 6 security updates?

John Kennedy

skebi69 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 3 16:15:15 UTC 2011


2 things to keep in mind...
1) the httpd dos vuln does not even have a Red Hat patch yet, only a 
work around.
2) the people who work on CentOS are VOLUNTEERS. They do not get paid 
which is a large part of why CentOS is free.

If you need up to the minute updates, maybe you should be using RHEL.

John

On 03/09/11 16:00, Vesselin Kolev wrote:
>   Today is September 3, 2011. There are no _any_ CentOS 6 security
> updates for a month (during August). And at the moment, the usage of
> CentOS 6 as a server platform is irresponsible risk (just for example -
> there is an uncovered httpd DoS, the same is for Samba, e.t.c). And more
> and more people start to realize that there is practically no (security)
> support in CentOS 6. Just look at centos-announce at centos.org - the only
> supported version of CentOS now is ... 4, which is almost at its "end of
> life"!!! How is it possible? How can I advise people to use CentOS in
> their business and make donations? Maybe I should ask them to pray for
> updates or so?
>
> Do You realise how critical is the situation now? Maybe you should think
> on what the words "Enterprise" mean. Or maybe You should think how to
> get back the lost confidence, because too many people now think that
> CentOS is no more enterprise distribution, not at all!
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John Kennedy



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