The Research And Development Of The Linux Patch Management Server

With the combination of virus and software vulnerability, worms suchas CodeRed, Nimda, SQL Stammer and Blaster, have caused great damage toglobal network and even economy. Software patches are vital to combat thiscombination. On the other hand, manually applying patches can not adaptto the large-scale network, and the automation tool for patch managementis needed.From the development of the LAN patch management tool, the paperdiscusses the vulnerability, the patch management features and the typicalprocesses of patch management. And the status of the patch management systemis studied. Based on these work, it proposes a scheme of the Linux patchmanagement system which can support several Linux versions. Then, thefunctions of the Linux patch management system are showed. The paperdescribes the detail of the design and implementation of a patch managementserver. Finally, this paper gives an advice about the future work of thescheme.