nixCraft → Howto → CentOS → Find Out If Patch Number ( CVE ) Has Been Applied To RHEL / CentOS Linux I know how to update my system using the yum command. But, how can I find out that patch has been applied to a package? How do I search CVE patch number applied to a package under a Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS/RHEL/Fedora Linux based system? You need to use the rpm command. Each rpm package sto