{"id":51,"date":"2013-09-03T15:21:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T15:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muse.oneshot.in\/?p=51"},"modified":"2013-09-03T15:21:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T15:21:05","slug":"how-to-make-yum-list-only-security-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muse.oneshot.in\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"How to make YUM list only security updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How do I only list or install only security updates under RHEL 5.x or CentOS Linux server? How do I find out security updates descriptions such as CVE, bugs, issued date and type for each patch?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can easily find out security patches related information using yum-security plugin. This plugin adds the options &#8211;security, &#8211;cve, &#8211;bz and &#8211;advisory flags to yum and the list-security and info-security commands. The options make it possible to limit list\/upgrade of packages to specific security relevant ones. The commands give you the security information.<br \/>\nInstall Plugin<\/p>\n<p>Type the following command:<br \/>\n# yum install yum-security<br \/>\nHow Do I Display Available Security Updates?<\/p>\n<p>Type the following command:<br \/>\n# yum list-security<br \/>\nSample Outputs:<\/p>\n<p>Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security<br \/>\nRHSA-2009:1148-1 security httpd-2.2.3-22.el5_3.2.x86_64<br \/>\nRHSA-2009:1148-1 security httpd-devel-2.2.3-22.el5_3.2.i386<br \/>\nRHSA-2009:1148-1 security httpd-manual-2.2.3-22.el5_3.2.x86_64<br \/>\nRHSA-2009:1148-1 security mod_ssl-1:2.2.3-22.el5_3.2.x86_64<br \/>\nlist-security done<\/p>\n<p>To list all updates that are security relevant, and get a reutrn code on whether there are security updates use:<br \/>\n# yum &#8211;security check-update<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I only list or install only security updates under RHEL 5.x or CentOS Linux server? How do I find out security updates descriptions such as CVE, bugs, issued date and type for each patch? You can easily find out security patches related information using yum-security plugin. This plugin adds the options &#8211;security, &#8211;cve, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-technology","category-redhat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muse.oneshot.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muse.oneshot.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muse.oneshot.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muse.oneshot.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muse.oneshot.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/muse.oneshot.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/muse.oneshot.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muse.oneshot.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muse.oneshot.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muse.oneshot.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}