Am 30.10.2014 um 21:20 schrieb Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Peter <peter at pajamian.dhs.org> wrote: >> On 10/31/2014 06:53 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> >>> CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2014:1764 Moderate >>> >>> Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1764.html >> >> Note to CentOS 5 users. RedHat does not plan to release a fixed wget >> for EL5. You can mitigate this vulnerability by adding the following >> line to the bottom of /etc/wgetrc: >> retr-symlinks=on >> >> Doing so will basically accomplish exactly the same thing that this >> update does. >> >> Peter > > Thanks for the heads up. Much appreciated. I'll just post a link > relevant to this: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139181#c17 > > I was a bit surprised to learn that security updates labelled > 'moderate' are no longer published for EL5. oh, that means effectively only 6-7 years "fully supported". -- LF