Re: need to update the following after security audit

[Leuy Eeelyu <sarawakbird yahoo com>]

--- Beau Henderson <silentbob gmail com> wrote:
> Which version of  RHEL and who or what gave you this
> information ?
> Have you checked the redhat web site ? Have you been
> keeping your OS
> up to date ?
> 
> I've had clients complain to me when they see the
> output of tools such
> as rkhunter, etc. when they have reported old or
> outdated software
> simply because of the versioning. Redhat do not
> always update the
> software packages when initiating bug fixes, thus
> some programs may
> appear to be out of date. This is a far to common
> misconception IMHO.

FYI we are using RHEL 3.0 if I were not wrong. See
below.  

[root box root]# uname -a
Linux box.box.com 2.4.21-20.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Nov
24 20:34:01 EST 200
4 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

> > 
> > > Hi.. After the security audit, it is found that
> some
> > > of the application in our RHEL box is old.  May
> I know
> > > how to upgrade them??  Do you need to download
> the RPM
> > > on the net or I can just do a
> > > up2date-upgrade-to-release version kind of
> things.???
> > >
> > >
> > > OpenSSH 3.6.1p2 (protocol 2.0)
> > >
> > > Apache httpd 2.0.46 -need to upgrade to 2.0.5
> > >
> > > Squid webproxy 2.5.STABLE3- need to  update the
> latest
> > > patches
> > >
> > > Where to get those patches?
> > >
> > > MySQL 3.23.58- need to upgrade to version 4.0.21
> > > Do we need to reconfigure the database after the
> > > upgrade?
> > 
> > 
> >   Jussi
> > 
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