# Patch Notification: Patch Finder vs Update Advisories
**URL:** https://forums.suse.com/t/patch-notification-patch-finder-vs-update-advisories/29523
**Category:** SLES Updates
**Created:** [March 21, 2017, 2:56am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/patch-notification-patch-finder-vs-update-advisories/29523 "2017-03-21T02:56:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@kkaren](https://forums.suse.com/u/kkaren)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2017, 2:56am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/patch-notification-patch-finder-vs-update-advisories/29523/1 "2017-03-21T02:56:00Z")
Hi,
I’m quite new here, so please bear with me. 🙂
Which is the official channel for the patch announcements?
Patch Finder: [https://download.suse.com/patch/finder/](https://download.suse.com/patch/finder/)
Update Advisories: [https://www.suse.com/support/update/](https://www.suse.com/support/update/)
The Update Advisories seem to be more complete due to the additional information on Security Rating. This piece of information doesn’t seem to be available in Patch Finder. Is there a way to retrieve the rating from Patch Finder? Is it possible to request to include the rating in the notifications?
For the advisories, is there a way to subscribe to it? I can’t seem to find a way to do this. Any APIs that I can use? Am I missing something?
Thanks,
Karen
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### Author:  [@KEVIN1](https://forums.suse.com/u/KEVIN1)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2017, 3:15am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/patch-notification-patch-finder-vs-update-advisories/29523/2 "2017-03-21T03:15:11Z")
kkaren wrote:
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> For the advisories, is there a way to subscribe to it? I can’t seem to
> find a way to do this.[/color]
You can get email notification for patches here:
[https://www.suse.com/email/notification/ctrl](https://www.suse.com/email/notification/ctrl)
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### Author:  [@kkaren](https://forums.suse.com/u/kkaren)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2017, 9:00am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/patch-notification-patch-finder-vs-update-advisories/29523/3 "2017-04-03T09:00:36Z")
Thanks Kevin. I have already subscribed to the patch notifications. What I’m trying to achieve is to subscribe to the advisories.
I was wondering if there are plans to include or map the severity rating and announcement ID for each security alert to the corresponding patch?
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### Author:  [@KEVIN1](https://forums.suse.com/u/KEVIN1)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/patch-notification-patch-finder-vs-update-advisories/29523/4 "2017-04-03T18:33:41Z")
kkaren wrote:
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> What I’m trying to achieve is to subscribe to the advisories.[/color]
I have inquired about that and currently there doesn’t appear to be any
way to do so.
Have you checked out the SUSE Security Resources?
[https://www.suse.com/support/security/](https://www.suse.com/support/security/)
SUSE provides OVAL Descriptions for SUSE Linux Enterprise Products
[https://www.suse.com/support/security/oval/](https://www.suse.com/support/security/oval/)
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> OVAL® is a XML description and reporting format used to assess and
> report the state of an operating system. More in depth information
> about OVAL can be found on the Mitre OVAL website.[/color]
> [color=blue]
> SUSE is currently providing OVAL information for SUSE Linux
> Enterprise products that allows to assess and report on the RPM
> package versions affected by known security issues in a CVE to RPM
> name/version mapping.[/color]
> [color=blue]
> The OVAL data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License
> 4.0 with Attribution for Non-Commercial usage (CC-BY-NC-4.0).[/color]
It would seem that the XML file has the information you are looking for
if you have some way to extract it.
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### Author:  [@kkaren](https://forums.suse.com/u/kkaren)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2017, 1:08pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/patch-notification-patch-finder-vs-update-advisories/29523/5 "2017-04-05T13:08:59Z")
Cool, I’ll look into that. Thanks again for the help, Kevin. Appreciate it!