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> From: "Shruti Palshikar" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 April, 2014 5:50:45 PM
> Subject: Upgrading OpenSSL on RHEL5

> Hello,

> I am trying to upgrade my openSSL version on RHEL5. WHen I tried to update it
> using yum commad (it kept pausing with the messages - No packages marked for
> update) I found out that this was not installed from the source but was
> present along with RHEL in the /usr directory. Following are some helpful
> commands to give you an idea of the machine and openSSL I am using

OpenSSL version shipped in RHEL 5 is the newest version that's compatible with
other applications and tools shipped in this RHEL version. It does have all
the important bug fixes and security fixes backported (if you think it is
missing something, please contact us through Customer Portal).

If you want to have a newer openssl version (e.g. to have support for AES-GCM or
TLS1.2), you will have to upgrade to newer RHEL release (6.5).

If you need only a single application to support newer cryptography, you
shouldn't replace the system version of openssl with version 1.0.x or
you will most likely break your install.

-- 
Regards,
Hubert Kario
BaseOS QE Security team
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkyňova 99/71, 612 45, Brno, Czech Republic
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