But, leave it too long, and you give an opportunity to threat actors to take advantage of an unpatched vulnerability. There is a lot of work involved in installing the latest Linux kernel security patches, and practical realities can mean that patches are delayed. In most but not all cases, the patches needed to fix them follow swiftly after. But sysadmins must keep patching: newly discovered security vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel seem to appear with monotonous regularity. They are as dull as taxes and about as fun as going to the dentist.

Then you can check kernel version by entering following command.Linux kernel updates are a fact of life. #There it will show newly installed kernel 3.17.1 at top of the list. # make & make modules_install & make installĮRROR: modinfo: could not find module vmware_balloonĮRROR: modinfo: could not find module snd_page_alloc You can save time by entering 3 commands (in step5 & step6) at a time The below command will create files under /boot directory and also make a new kernel entry in your nf file. Once the compilation completes, now install the Kernel 3.17.1 in your Linux system. The compilation would take at least 20-40 minutes depends on your system configuration.

Next, type the make command to compile the Kernel 3.17.1. Press and hold Enter button till its completed. If you like to configure your latest kernel with old configuration then simply type the below command. You will get similar to below screen, where you see number of menus to select configuration for your latest kernel. Once the file is downloaded extract it under /usr/src/ directory by running the below command. So, go to xz file and download it (it is less size and downloadable in less time compare to others). # yum install gcc ncurses ncurses-devel bc xzĭownload the latest Kernel 3.17.1 using wget command under /tmp directory. Step 1: Installing Kernel 3.17.1 Dependencies/Pre-requisites: To do this just follow all the below commands as root user. To install Kernel 3.17.1 you must install all the required dependency packages and keep your system packages up-to-date. The new updated kernel version comes with much new supported modules, you can read all the features at which is released on 15th Oct, 2014.

Centos latest kernel version