description of vulnerabilities in update packages

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Darrell Esau wrote:

> With RHN, (while using up2date), each package had a description of the 
> vulnerabilties/descriptions of the problems, which told how serious the 
> problem was.  I would use this information to tell if I needed to update the 
> package right away, or if it could wait.
> 
> That data seems to no longer be available with up2date.. clicking on the "View 
> Advisory" button yeilds something like "no advisory for this package".. and I 
> don't know if it ever was available for yum.
> 
> Is there any easy way to find this information?

Not exactly the same interface you are used to - but the same text should be at:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/
http://fedoranews.org/updates/

Satish