RHBA-2011:0122 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated spice-usb-share and kspiceusb-kmod packages that fix various
bugs and replace spice-usb-redirector, are now available.

Description

spice-usb-share is a non-free USB drivers package which is used to
share USB devices with a guest operating system connected via SPICE.
kspiceusb-kmod provides the kernel module that helps enable
spice-usb-share functionality.

The spice-usb-share and kspiceusb-kmod packages provide
USB-over-network capabilities when working with a SPICE client. The
package include 3 components: a kernel module, a service daemon to
handle the devices and a controller utility which intermediates between
SPICE and the USB service daemon.

Users that are using SPICE to access a remote virtual machine (VM)
managed by Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager and wanting their
client machine operating systems to make USB devices available to guest
operating systems should install/update these new packages.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red
Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 552602 - Need to build a new package (spice-usb-redirector) in brew - new package (for rhev VDI)
• BZ - 574376 - Error message when installing kmod-spice-usb-redirector
• BZ - 598855 - Upgrade spice-usb-redirector will clear spiceusbsrvd service from chkconfig --list
• BZ - 598862 - spice-usb-redirector needs to cleanup nicely its named semaphore
• BZ - 598919 - Remove kmod-spice-usb-redirector from rhel-5.5/32 will cause error message
• BZ - 601124 - [FEAT] Build kmod-spice-usb-redirector for RHEL-5.5-Client/32bit's default PAE kernel
• BZ - 610083 - Request to add the following package to RHEL 5.6: spice-usb-share
• BZ - 616576 - Request to add the following package to RHEL 5.6: kspiceusb-kmod

CVEs

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References

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