How can I update openssl on redhat 8 server

Question

It seems we are running outdated version of openssl and would like to upgrade it on a vm we have on Azure platform. Can you please advise how I can fetch new package to the repo and upgrade openssl ?

dnf update

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[root@web-nginx yum.repos.d]#

[root@web-nginx yum.repos.d]# yum repolist

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repo id repo name status

packages-microsoft-com-prod packages-microsoft-com-prod 590

rhui-codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rhui-rpms Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for RHEL 8 x86_64 (RPMs) from RHUI 1,873

rhui-microsoft-azure-rhel8 Microsoft Azure RPMs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 8

rhui-rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rhui-rpms Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream from RHUI (RPMs) 8,863

rhui-rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rhui-rpms Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS from RHUI (RPMs) 3,801

Thanks,

Pritesh

Answer 1

Hi @Pritesh Thakkar

The security release are based and managed by RedHat.

Short answer: you don’t. RHEL 8 is in the maintenance phase of its lifecycle. You should not expect new versions of things for it, and only critical and important CVE mitigations, likely backported into existing versions.

Please check the link below:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/3628041

Also you can use another opensource of openssl from the community to reach the security requirements or scans of security.

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Thank you,

Lisboa