Il 2021-06-21 13:34 Pete Biggs ha scritto:> CentOS does not provide the metadata to allow the --security flag to > work.Right.> It doesn't provide it because that information from Redhat is > proprietary and not open source.This is not my understanding. From what I can see, updates which patches CVEs are freely readable on Red Has site. For example: CVE: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-3156 UPDATE: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0221 Historically the CentOS team refused to provide such metadata due to the added work required. Now with Stream, and the demise of classic CentOS, security updates are even less probable (ie: a rolling release is often wholly updated). Regards. -- Danti Gionatan Supporto Tecnico Assyoma S.r.l. - www.assyoma.it email: g.danti at assyoma.it - info at assyoma.it GPG public key ID: FF5F32A8
Sorry, I forgot to mention that I am using CENTOS 7. This should receive the Red Hat Update cycle releases until 2024, right? Regards, Thomas -- Thomas Doczkal Snr System Engineer Socionext Europe GmbH pittlerstrasse 47 63225 langen, germany tel +49-6103-3745-386 mobile +49-174-9226082 fax +49-6103-3745-122 thomas.doczkal at socionext.com www.eu.socionext.com www.socionext.com Geschaeftsfuehrer/Managing Director: Toshihiko Tanaka, Dirk Weinsziehr, Koichi Otsuki, Yutaka Yoneyama Sitz/Seat: Langen, Hessen; Registergericht/Commercial Register: Offenbach/Main HRB 48005 This e-mail and any attachment contains information which is private and confidential and is intended for the addressee only. If you are not an addressee, you are not authorized to read, copy or use the e-mail or any attachment. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by return e-mail and then delete it. ________________________________________ From: CentOS <centos-bounces at centos.org> on behalf of Gionatan Danti <g.danti at assyoma.it> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2021 01:53 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Security Updates not properly flagged Il 2021-06-21 13:34 Pete Biggs ha scritto:> CentOS does not provide the metadata to allow the --security flag to > work.Right.> It doesn't provide it because that information from Redhat is > proprietary and not open source.This is not my understanding. From what I can see, updates which patches CVEs are freely readable on Red Has site. For example: CVE: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-3156 UPDATE: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0221 Historically the CentOS team refused to provide such metadata due to the added work required. Now with Stream, and the demise of classic CentOS, security updates are even less probable (ie: a rolling release is often wholly updated). Regards. -- Danti Gionatan Supporto Tecnico Assyoma S.r.l. - www.assyoma.it email: g.danti at assyoma.it - info at assyoma.it GPG public key ID: FF5F32A8 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Hi, freely does not imply free to redistribute. Of course these informations are available from various sources which allow redistribution, but it takes time to aggregate them - time that someone need to spend doing the necessary research. best regards, Markus On Mon, 2021-06-21 at 13:53 +0200, Gionatan Danti wrote:> Il 2021-06-21 13:34 Pete Biggs ha scritto: > > CentOS does not provide the metadata to allow the --security flag > > to > > work. > > Right. > > > It doesn't provide it because that information from Redhat is > > proprietary and not open source. > > This is not my understanding. From what I can see, updates which > patches > CVEs are freely readable on Red Has site. For example: > CVE: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-3156 > UPDATE: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0221 > > Historically the CentOS team refused to provide such metadata due to > the > added work required. Now with Stream, and the demise of classic > CentOS, > security updates are even less probable (ie: a rolling release is > often > wholly updated). > > Regards. >
On 6/21/21 4:53 AM, Gionatan Danti wrote:> Historically the CentOS team refused to provide such metadata due to > the added work required. Now with Stream, and the demise of classic > CentOS, security updates are even less probable (ie: a rolling release > is often wholly updated).CentOS Stream is not a rolling release.? It gets "rolling updates," but that just means that there are no point releases within a major release, and that updates aren't delayed in order to group rebased packages together at 6 month intervals.