Security/Critical updates for CentOS.

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Serhiy Danchenko

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Mar 15, 2015, 9:22:08 PM3/15/15
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vFense shows all updates as optional. Does vFense relay on yum to mark updates as Critical/Security or it parses, for example, Red Hat OVAL file?

Allen Sanabria

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Mar 16, 2015, 7:26:07 AM3/16/15
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Currently the updates do rely on the updates to mark it as Critical or Optional.

Serhiy Danchenko

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Mar 28, 2015, 11:47:51 AM3/28/15
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Do you mean yum list-security? 

That will work for pure Redhat only. :(

There are scripts for Spacewalk that imports Centos errata. Do we have something similar?

Serhiy Danchenko

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Mar 28, 2015, 11:47:51 AM3/28/15
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Sorry, one more thing. I followed https://github.com/vmfarms/generate_updateinfo and now yum info-security on my CentOS 5 server will give output like:

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

===============================================================================
  Important CentOS nss Update
===============================================================================
  Update ID : CESA_2013__1791
    Release : CentOS 5
       Type : security
     Status : stable
     Issued : 2013-12-05 17:45:58
Description : Important CentOS nss Update
info-security done


But, I still do not see critical updates for CentOS 5 on vFense server. All updates are shown as optional.

Is there anything else could be done?

On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 7:26:07 AM UTC-4, Allen Sanabria wrote:

Serhiy Danchenko

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Mar 28, 2015, 11:47:51 AM3/28/15
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Also, I see there is cve parser for redhat. Can it be translated to centos? Most packages are the same name with minor changes.


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Allen Sanabria

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Mar 28, 2015, 11:51:43 AM3/28/15
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This is very cool, I will see if I can get this working.

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