Occasionally, applications in your webspace may run checks to help guarantee your site is secure. As a major aspect of these checks, the application reads the version number of various software on our servers. Now and then, these version numbers are old and consequently raise warnings. The most well-known models for cURL is "You presently have version 7.19.7 of cURL installed. This version is known to have security issues. Please update to the latest cURL".
We see how that could stress you! However, a update isn't required and your site is yet secure.
Our Linux/WordPress stages run Redhat Enterprise Operating Systems, and Redhat utilize a procedure known as 'backporting' into marginally older, stable versions of software to guarantee security and strength all through the whole working Systems. Put Simply, while the version number may seem, by all accounts, to be outdated, you can be guaranteed any security fixes have been reflectively connected to ensure they stay secure.
To discover increasingly about backporting, if it's not too much trouble see this article on Backporting Security Fixes on Redhat's site.