yum output shows incorrect number of available and relevant security fixes

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Issue

  • yum output shows incorrect number of available and relevant packages.
    i.e the output shows:
1920 package(s) needed for security, out of 295 available

Which should be as:

295 package(s) needed for security, out of 1920 available

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6
  • yum-utils-1.1.30-37.el6.noarch.rpm

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