The software described in this documentation is either in Extended Support or Sustaining Support. See https://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/enterprise-linux-support-policies-069172.pdf for more information.
Oracle recommends that you upgrade the software described by this documentation as soon as possible.

3.4 Applying the Update

When you have set up the ULN channels, yum repositories, or installation media repositories that the yum command should use, you can update all of the installed packages by running the following command:

# yum update

This command upgrades your system to Oracle Linux 6.10.

Use the following command to update a specific package:

# yum update package

For example, to update the Z-shell package (zsh), you would type:

# yum update zsh

For more information, see the yum(8) man page.