Here is a short note on List of Commands to Install Security Vulnerabilities with yum. To get more information man page of yum-security is a good reference.
# man yum-security
Installing yum-security package
First Check if you have the yum-security(for RHEL 5) or yum-plugin-security (for RHEL 6,7) package installed on your system.
For CentOS/RHEL 5:
# rpm -qa |grep -i yum-security
If yum-security is not installed, install it using below command.
# yum install yum-security
For CentOS/RHEL 6 and 7:
# rpm -qa |grep -i yum-plugin-security
If yum-plugin-security is not installed, install it using below command.
# yum install yum-plugin-security
Listing Available Erratas
To list all available erratas:
For CentOS/RHEL 5:
# yum list-sec
For CentOS/RHEL 6 and 7:
# yum updateinfo list available
Listing Available/Installed security updates
To list all available security updates:
For CentOS/RHEL 5:
# yum list-security --security
For CentOS/RHEL 6 and 7:
# yum updateinfo list security all
To list currently installed security updates
# yum updateinfo list security installed
To list all available security updates with verbose
For CentOS/RHEL 5,6 and 7:
# yum info-sec
Installing Security Packages
To install all security package:
For CentOS/RHEL 5,6 and 7:
# yum update --security
To install Package that have security Errata:
For CentOS/RHEL 5,6 and 7:
# yum update-minimal --security
To install Package that have security CVE:
For CentOS/RHEL 5,6 and 7:
# yum update --cve [CVE]
To install one specific advisory:
For CentOS/RHEL 5,6 and 7:
# yum update --advisory=ELBA-2016-2319