CVE Vulnerabilities

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) is a system that provides a reference-method for publicly known information-security vulnerabilities and exposures.

A CVE-ID follows the format "CVE-YYYY-NNNN", where "YYYY" is the year the CVE-ID was assigned or published and "NNNN" is a unique number.

Checking CVE patching (RHEL)

rpm -q --changelog <package_name> | grep -i CVENUMBER

Checking CVE patching (Debian)

apt-get changelog <package_name> | grep -i CVENUMBER