upgrade openSSH 7.2p in ubuntu 14.04

Question

I have a server running Ubuntu 14.04, but I have an issue with PCI requirements. I have installed in my server OpenSSH 6.6p1, then I upgraded it to OpenSSH 7.2p, compiling the c

Answer 1

You don't need to if you are using Ubuntu LTS. It seems like the Ubuntu Security Team pushes the patches to you! A detailed answer:

Tools like Qualys and nmap are not that smart to figure this out. You can visit the ubuntu package changelog page [For my case the package was openssh-server6.6] to see if the patch has been provided.

At max to be safe, just do sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade openssh-server to get the patches.