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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2012:0772 - Bug Fix Advisory
Issued:
2012-06-20
Updated:
2012-06-20

RHBA-2012:0772 - Bug Fix Advisory

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Synopsis

virt-viewer bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

Updated virt-viewer packages that fix multiple bugs and add various enhancements
are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

Virtual Machine Viewer (virt-viewer) is a lightweight interface for interacting
with the graphical display of a virtualized guest. Virtual Machine Viewer uses
libvirt and is intended as a replacement for traditional VNC or SPICE clients.

These updated virt-viewer packages 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 6.3 Technical Notes for information on
the most significant of these changes:

https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.3_Technical_Notes/virt-viewer.html#RHBA-2012-0772

All users of virt-viewer are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
fix these bugs and add 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/knowledge/articles/11258

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 IBM z Systems 6 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
  • 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 (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

  • BZ - 789090 - spice-client: smart-card (CAC) support from the controller
  • BZ - 795437 - remote-viewer: honor hot keys passed via controller
  • BZ - 797015 - [virt-viewer] Virt-viewer doesn't start with specific locales.
  • BZ - 797082 - [virt-viewer]virt-viewer crashed when try reconnect to a guest with spice graphic device after restart the guest.
  • BZ - 799038 - Add Spice foreign menu support
  • BZ - 802673 - Virt-viewer form cannot be closed through GUI when it connects to a VNC guest.
  • BZ - 803834 - USB Auto-Share does not work in initial full-screen of spice session
  • BZ - 810544 - virt-viewer adds 1px black bar to the bottom in full screen mode, thus causing guest to be unnecessarily scaled
  • BZ - 811131 - man docs for remote-viewer miss hyphens of "--full-screen" options.
  • BZ - 811191 - Missing --attach in the virt-viewer man page
  • BZ - 813375 - support ipv6 addresses on CLI
  • BZ - 814043 - remote-viewer does not have an application name set for human friendly title bar
  • BZ - 816550 - virt-viewer create new window for multiple monitors when reconnect to a guest.
  • BZ - 819436 - "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" displayed in terminal when a virt-viewer
  • BZ - 822683 - Two display channels with the same id get connected to the server after migration in switch-mode

CVEs

(none)

References

  • https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.3_Technical_Notes/virt-viewer.html#RHBA-2012-0772
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
virt-viewer-0.5.2-9.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 1a15341e8dc53f7cc5a0f878ec8478f171f21f9c74038ebd5f2951d1d69f1d1b
x86_64
virt-viewer-0.5.2-9.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 44f57b03467c1c3a0babd050178c0a3bb01cf5b89dea9b160abf859b8df36676
virt-viewer-debuginfo-0.5.2-9.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 2e70c82165512334d58c3364d6d92560fb1df184fd377b229d90a4c53bc3e464
i386
virt-viewer-0.5.2-9.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 335114e842b78b3ce24ca8962e3c988ce2b5c2d3eefbd53abea11aadcc255b47
virt-viewer-debuginfo-0.5.2-9.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 7cd0842d99261bb92000825a701c184fb888e8bedc92611b07d84636bc50a511

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6

SRPM
virt-viewer-0.5.2-9.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 1a15341e8dc53f7cc5a0f878ec8478f171f21f9c74038ebd5f2951d1d69f1d1b
x86_64
virt-viewer-0.5.2-9.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 44f57b03467c1c3a0babd050178c0a3bb01cf5b89dea9b160abf859b8df36676
virt-viewer-debuginfo-0.5.2-9.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 2e70c82165512334d58c3364d6d92560fb1df184fd377b229d90a4c53bc3e464
i386
virt-viewer-0.5.2-9.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 335114e842b78b3ce24ca8962e3c988ce2b5c2d3eefbd53abea11aadcc255b47
virt-viewer-debuginfo-0.5.2-9.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 7cd0842d99261bb92000825a701c184fb888e8bedc92611b07d84636bc50a511

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
virt-viewer-0.5.2-9.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 1a15341e8dc53f7cc5a0f878ec8478f171f21f9c74038ebd5f2951d1d69f1d1b
x86_64
virt-viewer-0.5.2-9.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 44f57b03467c1c3a0babd050178c0a3bb01cf5b89dea9b160abf859b8df36676
virt-viewer-debuginfo-0.5.2-9.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 2e70c82165512334d58c3364d6d92560fb1df184fd377b229d90a4c53bc3e464
i386
virt-viewer-0.5.2-9.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 335114e842b78b3ce24ca8962e3c988ce2b5c2d3eefbd53abea11aadcc255b47
virt-viewer-debuginfo-0.5.2-9.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 7cd0842d99261bb92000825a701c184fb888e8bedc92611b07d84636bc50a511

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
virt-viewer-0.5.2-9.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 1a15341e8dc53f7cc5a0f878ec8478f171f21f9c74038ebd5f2951d1d69f1d1b
x86_64
virt-viewer-0.5.2-9.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 44f57b03467c1c3a0babd050178c0a3bb01cf5b89dea9b160abf859b8df36676
virt-viewer-debuginfo-0.5.2-9.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 2e70c82165512334d58c3364d6d92560fb1df184fd377b229d90a4c53bc3e464
i386
virt-viewer-0.5.2-9.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 335114e842b78b3ce24ca8962e3c988ce2b5c2d3eefbd53abea11aadcc255b47
virt-viewer-debuginfo-0.5.2-9.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 7cd0842d99261bb92000825a701c184fb888e8bedc92611b07d84636bc50a511

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
virt-viewer-0.5.2-9.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 1a15341e8dc53f7cc5a0f878ec8478f171f21f9c74038ebd5f2951d1d69f1d1b
s390x
virt-viewer-0.5.2-9.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 828526cf30a78f012ccfd1b401d2674b77ab90e164874759110e6dd09317ab2b
virt-viewer-debuginfo-0.5.2-9.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 1ae4417212560d5cf0af68fab79533c5486def432608b13be5b462f18726aa0b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
virt-viewer-0.5.2-9.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 1a15341e8dc53f7cc5a0f878ec8478f171f21f9c74038ebd5f2951d1d69f1d1b
ppc64
virt-viewer-0.5.2-9.el6.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: af182a5bbc9f99f6ae7585e9c27d72cf852f82f71385b1bbfae155ccd1313ba9
virt-viewer-debuginfo-0.5.2-9.el6.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 807dbc8ce6e3214d4126209d8b5509a6ae0f9d8a80d5e6a90bfe9f370a5c2d57

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
virt-viewer-0.5.2-9.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 1a15341e8dc53f7cc5a0f878ec8478f171f21f9c74038ebd5f2951d1d69f1d1b
x86_64
virt-viewer-0.5.2-9.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 44f57b03467c1c3a0babd050178c0a3bb01cf5b89dea9b160abf859b8df36676
virt-viewer-debuginfo-0.5.2-9.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 2e70c82165512334d58c3364d6d92560fb1df184fd377b229d90a4c53bc3e464

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6

SRPM
virt-viewer-0.5.2-9.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 1a15341e8dc53f7cc5a0f878ec8478f171f21f9c74038ebd5f2951d1d69f1d1b
x86_64
virt-viewer-0.5.2-9.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 44f57b03467c1c3a0babd050178c0a3bb01cf5b89dea9b160abf859b8df36676
virt-viewer-debuginfo-0.5.2-9.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 2e70c82165512334d58c3364d6d92560fb1df184fd377b229d90a4c53bc3e464
i386
virt-viewer-0.5.2-9.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 335114e842b78b3ce24ca8962e3c988ce2b5c2d3eefbd53abea11aadcc255b47
virt-viewer-debuginfo-0.5.2-9.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 7cd0842d99261bb92000825a701c184fb888e8bedc92611b07d84636bc50a511

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6

SRPM
virt-viewer-0.5.2-9.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 1a15341e8dc53f7cc5a0f878ec8478f171f21f9c74038ebd5f2951d1d69f1d1b
s390x
virt-viewer-0.5.2-9.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 828526cf30a78f012ccfd1b401d2674b77ab90e164874759110e6dd09317ab2b
virt-viewer-debuginfo-0.5.2-9.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 1ae4417212560d5cf0af68fab79533c5486def432608b13be5b462f18726aa0b

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