Remember that rhel/centos backports fixes, so just looking version number is not reliable way to detect security issues. Eero 2015-10-21 21:18 GMT+03:00 Nick Bright <nick.bright at valnet.net>: > Greetings, > > I'm working with a new CentOS 7 installation, moving a system up from > CentOS 5 due to OpenSSL version 0.9.8e not meeting PCI Compliance > requirements. > > However, while setting up the CentOS 7 environment one of the closed > source applications is requiring 0.9.8. The software vendor has advised > installing package openssl098e from yum; but I'm hesitant to do so from a > compliance and security perspective. > > What are the implications of this compatibility package? What does it > provide/do? > > Thank you, > > -- > ----------------------------------------------- > - Nick Bright - > - Vice President of Technology - > - Valnet -=- We Connect You -=- - > - Tel 888-332-1616 x 315 / Fax 620-331-0789 - > - Web http://www.valnet.net/ - > ----------------------------------------------- > - Are your files safe? - > - Valnet Vault - Secure Cloud Backup - > - More information & 30 day free trial at - > - http://www.valnet.net/services/valnet-vault - > ----------------------------------------------- > > This email message and any attachments are intended solely for the use of > the addressees hereof. This message and any attachments may contain > information that is confidential, privileged and exempt from disclosure > under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient of this > message, you are prohibited from reading, disclosing, reproducing, > distributing, disseminating or otherwise using this transmission. If you > have received this message in error, please promptly notify the sender by > reply E-mail and immediately delete this message from your system. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >