Remember that rhel/centos backports fixes, so just looking version number
is not reliable way to detect security issues.
Eero
2015-10-21 21:18 GMT+03:00 Nick Bright <nick.bright@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm working with a new CentOS 7 installation, moving a system up from
> CentOS 5 due to OpenSSL version 0.9.8e not meeting PCI Compliance
> requirements.
>
> However, while setting up the CentOS 7 environment one of the closed
> source applications is requiring 0.9.8. The software vendor has advised
> installing package openssl098e from yum; but I'm hesitant to do so from a
> compliance and security perspective.
>
> What are the implications of this compatibility package? What does it
> provide/do?
>
> Thank you,
>
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