Upgrade cURL to latest on CentOS 5.8

I need to update cURL on my MediaTemple DV server with CentOS. My server is running cURL version: 7.15.5 and CentOS version: 5.8 (final).

I've seen commands like yum update curl, but just want to be certain before I start running commands on my server.

I saw this question " Upgrade cURL to latest on CentOS ", but I see a lot of references to Linux.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Running yum update <package> is generally speaking safe. Since the most recent Erratum for cURL is RHSA-2013-0983 from 2013 I don't expect that yum upgrade curl will actually do anything at all in 2016...

Running yum update <package> also typically won't change the version of that package either...

You probably should also run yum upate without any other options regularly to install the few security updates/bug fixes that still get released for RHEL/CentOS 5.

EDIT I had missed that you're still on 5.8 which is an CentOS release from 2012 that hasn't been patched since. Read this answer why that is a Bad Idea™.
If your yum configuration is correct a yum update curl might require installation of a number of updated dependancies as well, which are long overdue.