Terry wrote: > Hello, > > We are running CentOS 5.5 on a server that is not reporting any > security updates: <snip> > However, Nexpose, our vulnerability scanner detected otherwise. Upon > digging deeper, I noticed that we are on a kernel version that has a > known issue fixed in a later version: > > [root at server01 ~]# rpm -q kernel > kernel-2.6.18-194.el5 > kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 <snip> As someone else just pointed out, current release is 5.8. For that matter, and I'm just pulling this vaguely out of my memory, .el5 with no sub-numbers suggests to me that this has *never* been updated since the install/update to the initial 5.5. This is *NOT* a good idea. There have been many security fixes since then. mark