LINUX: How To List Changelog Which Lists All the Changes Which Went Into RPM Package in Linux? ("rpm" command) (How To Doc)

Below command can be used to check to list changelog which lists all the changes which went into RPM package in Linux.

rpm -q --changelog <rpm package name>

Below is example snippet of above command which lists changelog of openssl rpm package.

# rpm -q --changelog openssl
* Tue Mar 12 2019 Kevin Lyons <kevin.x.lyons@oracle.com> 1.0.2k-16.0.1.el7_6.1
- Bump release for rebuild.

* Wed Feb 06 2019 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz@redhat.com> 1.0.2k-16.1
- use SHA-256 in FIPS RSA pairwise key check
- fix CVE-2018-5407 - EC signature local timing side-channel key extraction

* Tue Aug 14 2018 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz@redhat.com> 1.0.2k-16
- fix CVE-2018-0495 - ROHNP - Key Extraction Side Channel on DSA, ECDSA
- fix incorrect error message on FIPS DSA parameter generation (#1603597)

* Tue Jun 19 2018 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz@redhat.com> 1.0.2k-14
- ppc64le is not multilib architecture (#1585004)

* Mon Jun 18 2018 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz@redhat.com> 1.0.2k-13
- add S390x assembler updates
- make CA name list comparison function case sensitive (#1548401)
- fix CVE-2017-3735 - possible one byte overread with X.509 IPAdressFamily
- fix CVE-2018-0732 - large prime DH DoS of TLS client
- fix CVE-2018-0737 - RSA key generation cache timing vulnerability
- fix CVE-2018-0739 - stack overflow parsing recursive ASN.1 structure

Products to which Article Applies

All Linux Environments

Additional References

https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=51443

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