RHBA-2013:0654 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated spice-vdagent packages that fixes several bugs are now available for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The spice-vdagent packages provide a SPICE agent for Linux guests.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• While adjusting the guest monitor configuration, the SPICE agent failed to set

the resolution when it switched to full-screen mode, because the guests video
memory was exhausted. This left the guest monitor configuration in an
inconsistent state. This update fixes the issue by reverting the guest monitor
configuration to the previous state, when the agent fails to adjust the guest
monitor configuration. (BZ#919089)

• Previously, after performing tasks such as resizing the window, copying and

pasting data and changing to full-screen mode, the user session spice-vdagent
process terminated when the system-level spice-vdagentd was restarted. With this
update, the user session spice-vdagent process no longer crashes after restarts.
(BZ#921154)

• The vdagent agent logged warning messages when multiple monitors were used on

a single qxl device. With this update, the agent does not log a warning when
there are more monitors than qxl-devs. (BZ#921155)

Users of spice-vdagent are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
fix these bugs.

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 for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.4 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 Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.4 i386
• Red Hat Gluster Storage Server for On-premise 2.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Storage for Public Cloud (via RHUI) 2.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• 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 - 919089 - Setting wrong resolution when switching to fullscreen
• BZ - 921154 - Spice Vdagent: RHEL 6.4 32bit guest, Service Crashes after stopping and starting the service, killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
• BZ - 921155 - warning: Client has n monitors, but only 1 qxl devices found

CVEs

(none)

References

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