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How To Apply Security Update On Oracle Linux 6 and 7

edited Jun 29, 2022 6:07PM in Linux

Applies to:

Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 6.0 to Oracle Linux 7.6 [Release OL6 to OL7U6]

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A to N/A [Release 1.0]

Linux x86-64

Goal

This document will show how to apply security updates using CVE, Errata with yum command on Oracle Linux 6 and Oracle Linux 7.

Solution

ORACLE LINUX 6

The following rpm yum-plugin-security-<version> must be installed by using : "yum install yum-plugin-security"

# rpm -qa | grep -i yum-plugin-security
 yum-plugin-security-1.1.30-42.0.1.el6_10.noarch

 

On Oracle Linux 6 by running "yum repolist" it will start downloading only the metadata for the packages "primary.sqlite,repomd.xml" that means the

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