RHBA-2013:1571 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated spice-server packages that fix a number of bugs and add various
enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is a remote
display protocol for virtual environments. SPICE users can access a virtualized
desktop or server from the local system or any system with network access to the
server. SPICE is used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux for viewing virtualized guests
running on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor or on Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisors.

These updated spice-server 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 6.5 Technical Notes for information on
the most significant of these changes:

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.5_Technical_Notes/spice-server.html#RHBA-2013-1571

Users of spice-server 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/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• 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 - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 823472 - assertion failure with es1370 device and spice-server
• BZ - 859027 - repeated client_migrate_info caused freeing invalid pointer, followed ultimately by segfault in _int_malloc
• BZ - 918169 - Closing window while playing video causes VM to crash
• BZ - 918472 - [abrt] qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.355.el6: getnameinfo: Process /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
• BZ - 950029 - video streaming during migration might result in destination aborting
• BZ - 952666 - RHEL-7/F-19 does not work on 6.4 qemu-kvm + spice: assert "red_create_surface: Untested path stride >= 0" failed
• BZ - 952671 - Rebase spice-server to latest upstream
• BZ - 956345 - Spice server aborts after 2 seamless migration
• BZ - 958276 - videos without audio might not be played after migration (till client reconnects)
• BZ - 961848 - RFE: add support for filtering out agent file transfer messages
• BZ - 977998 - freezed display when jpeg compression enabled (over WAN)
• BZ - 978403 - [RFE] adaptive video streaming
• BZ - 995041 - timeout duration for waiting for a client response is too long (when flushing commands)

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.5_Technical_Notes/spice-server.html#RHBA-2013-1571