Comments on: Find the changelog / security log of a Linux rpm package http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-find-out-linux-rpm-package-changelog.html This is a Linux sys admin journal by Vivek about sys admin work, Linux tips & tricks, hacks, news and more. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:37:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Honzikhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-find-out-linux-rpm-package-changelog.html#comment-170570 Honzik Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:22:46 +0000 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-find-out-linux-rpm-package-changelog.html#comment-170570 rpm -qi --changelog kernel-2.4.21-63.EL | grep CVE will list you all CVE fixes which are included in already installed package If you want to know CVE fixes which brings you new rpm package (not installed yet) run rpm -qp --changelog kernel-2.4.21-63.EL.i686.rpm | grep CVE This example is for kernel package. rpm -qi –changelog kernel-2.4.21-63.EL | grep CVE
will list you all CVE fixes which are included in already installed package

If you want to know CVE fixes which brings you new rpm package (not installed yet) run
rpm -qp –changelog kernel-2.4.21-63.EL.i686.rpm | grep CVE

This example is for kernel package.

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