When Linux Was Last Patched

Here’s a handy command to see if Linux was patched recently.

<pre lang="bash">
rpm -qa --last | head

A typical result would look something like this.

<pre lang="bash">
name-of-patch          Sun 20 Jan 2019 05:36:31 PM UTC
name-of-patch          Fri 18 Jan 2019 02:52:51 PM UTC