RHBA-2011:0583 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

New libcacard packages, and an updated spice-client package, that fix a number
of bugs and add various enhancements, are now available for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6.

Description

The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is a remote
display protocol designed for virtual environments.

The new libcacard package contains Common Access Card (CAC) emulation library.

These new libcacard packages and an updated spice-client package include
numerous bug fixes and enhancements. Space precludes documenting all of these
changes in this advisory. Users are directed to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1
Technical Notes for information on the most significant of these changes:

https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.1_Technical_Notes/libcacard.html#RHBA-2011-0583

All libcacard and spice-client users are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which provide numerous bug fixes and enhancements.

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 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 626975 - Blinking keyb leds in spice client causes capslock to turn on / off all the time in other windows
• BZ - 628573 - Xorg is using 80% of cpu with spicec in fullscreen mode.
• BZ - 630825 - Guest kernel panic with spice cause host CapsLock and NumLock on and off in a loop
• BZ - 642149 - spice client fullscreen mode does not work with compiz window manager
• BZ - 644292 - [abrt] spice-client-0.4.2-18.el6: __strncpy_ssse3: Process /usr/libexec/spicec was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
• BZ - 653535 - Spice client (on CSB6) - fail to set Window title
• BZ - 655029 - spice watermark issue
• BZ - 663063 - New package: Add libcacard to RHEL-6
• BZ - 670238 - jpeg messages encoding is transfered as 4 and not 1, breaking client
• BZ - 670271 - build issue: fix warnings from AC_COMPILE_IFELSE
• BZ - 670274 - not verbose enough error message when subject-host differs from server
• BZ - 670276 - long arguments are incorrectly parsed when an equal sign is used
• BZ - 671383 - Rebase spice-client to 0.8.0
• BZ - 675085 - need an Obsoletes: tag for spice-common and spice-ffmpeg and more
• BZ - 675767 - Unable to send Ctrl+Alt+key shortcut to a Guest
• BZ - 679467 - Changes of Caps/Num Lock status are not synchronized from a Guest to a Client
• BZ - 680763 - x11 spicec hangs on exit handler at XLockDisplay

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.1_Technical_Notes/libcacard.html#RHBA-2011-0583