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If you're comparing Red Hat RPM's version numbers, then don't. Red Hat works by backporting features and fixes on top of the old versions, precisely so customers don't need to upgrade to new major versions so often.

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This always pops up when we have audits performed; Solutionary in particular seems to just go by version number with ssh, and doesn't seem to recognize that RHEL has backported numerous fixes into it's RPMs.

Well that makes it more complicated. Any idea how I would be able to find these packages (specifically: libunwind8, libssl-dev and unzip)

https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/Documentation/...

Uhm, ... packages don't always have the same names on all distributions!

i.e. "libunwind8" translates to libunwind, unzip to unzip and libssl-dev to openssl-devel. libunwind's from EPEL though...

Looks like we'll be adding libunwind as a new package in RHEL 7.2. (There's a BZ, but for some reason I can't really fathom it is marked as private, and it's above my salary scale to open private bugs, sorry)

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