RHBA-2013:0343 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated spice-gtk packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements
are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The spice-gtk packages provide a GTK2 widget for SPICE clients. Both the
virt-manager and virt-viewer utilities can make use of this widget to access
virtual machines using the SPICE protocol.

These updated spice-gtk 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 6.4 Technical Notes for information on
the most significant of these changes:

https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.4_Technical_Notes/spice-gtk.html

All users of spice-gtk 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 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 - 718001 - spicec --help needs explanation of how to use "--fullscreen=[auto-conf]" option
• BZ - 804187 - USB dialog should provide some help when no device available.
• BZ - 812347 - High network jitter causes some keystrokes to enter multiple characters instead of one
• BZ - 813865 - support raw ipv6 addresses in URIs
• BZ - 818847 - Improve the output message when set --spice-color-depth in invalid value
• BZ - 818848 - No error messages print when set --spice-disable-effects and other spice options with wrong value
• BZ - 822437 - add channel ID to all GSpice-DEBUG connection-related messages
• BZ - 823570 - [abrt] virt-viewer-0.5.2-8.el6: Process /usr/bin/remote-viewer was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
• BZ - 834283 - Using left ctrl - alt - del does not work with windows 7 kvm
• BZ - 834504 - RFE: print more informative error on host subject mismatch
• BZ - 835997 - Changes caused by mouse movement are not rendered after migration.
• BZ - 842354 - Rebase spice-gtk to latest upstream
• BZ - 842411 - RFE: spice-gtk: support spice dynamic monitor via monitors-config
• BZ - 843134 - After connection to agent-less guest with 16b colour depth, initial screen is black and gets drawn on change only
• BZ - 846666 - Print distinct errors when there is no CA cert provided or server cert isn't signed by it
• BZ - 846911 - RFE: seamless migration
• BZ - 851090 - Ctrl-Shift composite key not work
• BZ - 858228 - Validate empty host subject from qemu exactly like when no explicit host subject is specified
• BZ - 858232 - if port (tls-port) number is zero, treat it as if no port number given
• BZ - 859392 - Native USB requires root password to work from RHEL client.
• BZ - 861332 - Properly reset usb channels after non-seamless migration
• BZ - 867885 - Disable client-side mouse acceleration temporarily when the pointer is in server mode and grabbed
• BZ - 868237 - spice-gtk sends 00 scancodes to inputs_scancode capable vms
• BZ - 881072 - Closing remote-viewer windows doesn't disconnect the display immediately

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.4_Technical_Notes/spice-gtk.html