Chapter 1. Identifying security updates
Chapter 1. Identifying security updates Keeping enterprise systems secure from current and future threats requires regular security updates. Red Hat Product Security provides the guidance you need to confidently deploy and maintain enterprise solutions. 1.1. What are security advisories? Red Hat Security Advisories (RHSA) document the information about security flaws being fixed in Red Hat products and services. Each RHSA includes the following information: Severity Type and status Affected products Summary of fixed issues Links to the tickets about the problem. Note that not all tickets are public. Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) numbers and links with additional details, such as attack complexity. Red Hat Customer Portal provides a list of Red Hat Security Advisories published by Red Hat. You can display details of a specific advisory by navigating to the advisory's ID from the list of Red Hat Security Advisories. Figure 1.1. List of security advisories Optionally, you can also filter the results by specific product, variant, version, and architecture. For example, to display only advisories for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, you can set the following filters: Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Variant: All Variants Version: 9 Optionally, select a minor version. Additional resources List of Red Hat Security Advisories Anatomy of a Red Hat Security Advisory 1.2. Displaying security updates that are not installed on a host You can list all available security updates for your system by using the dnf utility. Prerequisite A Red Hat subscription is attached to the host. Procedure List all available security updates which have not been installed on the host: 1.3. Displaying security updates that are installed on a host You can list installed security updates for your system by using the dnf utility. Procedure List all security updates which are installed on the host: If multiple updates of a single package are installed, dnf lists all advisories for the package. In the example, two security updates for the python3-libs package have been installed since the system installation. 1.4. Displaying a specific advisory by using DNF You can use the dnf utility to display a specific advisory information that is available for an update. Prerequisites A Red Hat subscription is attached to the host. You know the ID of the security advisory. The update provided by the advisory is not installed. Procedure Display a specific advisory, for example:
dnf updateinfo list updates security ... RHSA-2019:0997 Important/Sec. platform-python-3.6.8-2.el8_0.x86_64 RHSA-2019:0997 Important/Sec. python3-libs-3.6.8-2.el8_0.x86_64 RHSA-2019:0990 Moderate/Sec. systemd-239-13.el8_0.3.x86_64 ... dnf updateinfo list security --installed ... RHSA-2019:1234 Important/Sec. libssh2-1.8.0-7.module+el8+2833+c7d6d092 RHSA-2019:4567 Important/Sec. python3-libs-3.6.7.1.el8.x86_64 RHSA-2019:8901 Important/Sec. python3-libs-3.6.8-1.el8.x86_64 ... dnf updateinfo info RHSA-2019:0997 ==================================================================== Important: python3 security update ==================================================================== Update ID: RHSA-2019:0997 Type: security Updated: 2019-05-07 05:41:52 Bugs: 1688543 - CVE-2019-9636 python: Information Disclosure due to urlsplit improper NFKC normalization CVEs: CVE-2019-9636 Description: ...