RHBA-2012:0316 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated spice-xpi package that fixes multiple bugs and adds multiple
enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The spice-xpi package provides the Simple Protocol for Independent Computing
Environments (SPICE) extension for Mozilla that allows the SPICE client to be
used from a web browser.

The spice-xpi package has been upgraded to upstream version 2.4, which provides
a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version.

In addition, this update adds the following enhancement:

• With this update, the SPICE XPI plug-in now allows the SPICE client to connect

to both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 hosts and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 hosts.
(BZ#612967)

All users of spice-xpi are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
fixes these bugs and adds these enhancements.

Solution

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

This update is available via the 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 - 552598 - Need to add a rpm package (spice-xpi) for Spice Client XPI in brew
• BZ - 573367 - SPICE - Firefox crash when establishing spice session with non-root user from REHL client

CVEs

(none)

References

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