RHBA-2013:0361 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

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

Description

The virt-viewer packages provide Virtual Machine Viewer, which 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 6.4 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/virt-viewer.html

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 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 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• 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
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 822794 - There is no return at the end of line of virt-viewer's verbose information.
• BZ - 828339 - virt-viewer add --title option to remote-viewer/virt-viewer
• BZ - 832121 - Treat ::0 as a wildcard address
• BZ - 842305 - RFE: virt-viewer: support spice dynamic monitor via monitors-config
• BZ - 854318 - Rebuild virt-viewer
• BZ - 856610 - [remote-viewer] Enabling auto resize results in wrong resolution
• BZ - 856678 - [remote-viever] Zooming in beyond normal size with vdagent on guest is broken
• BZ - 860669 - Keyboard: AltGr+V does not work with some non-us keyboard layout
• BZ - 867248 - virt-viewer crashed when connect to a spice guest with incorrect graphic password.
• BZ - 867459 - remote-viewer crash (segfault) in main() right after start from the XPI plugin
• BZ - 875126 - "Take screenshot" dialog should add .png to the saved file name and ignore all common image extensions typed

CVEs

(none)

References

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