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Description of problem: It would be nice to be able to easily query the security plugin for the severity of a given errata. I realize its in the title, but scheduling downtime for applications which must be restarted afterwards is easier when I can build an automated query to report which errata are critical and which are less so. For the critical ones I'd probably be able to schedule a window in the very very near future, for the others I don't have that luxury. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.1.30-6.el6 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum list-sec 2. look for Critical (or use grep) 3. wish this was able to be contained in the updateinfo.xml so that my way of rating vulnerabilities doesn't depend on you never changing the formatting of the title. Actual results: A weird hack for determining importance of updates. Expected results: A more elegant way of knowing how severe a security update is Additional info: In fedora this doesn't bother me so much as that is never on my servers, but with yum-plugin-security being such a great tool. I'd love to leverage it some more for manager friendly reporting.
Since RHEL 6.2 External Beta has begun, and this bug remains unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as exception or blocker. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
The latest version of the security plugin has --sec-severity option. This should already be fixed/available in the version you have. Also note that there is a: yum updateinfo ...command, see the man page.