RHBA-2013:1577 - 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 GIMP Toolkit (GTK+) widget for SPICE (Simple
Protocol for Independent Computing Environments) clients. Both Virtual Machine
Manager and Virtual Machine Viewer 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 6.5 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-gtk.html#RHBA-2013-1577

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/site/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 - 752350 - RFE: copy & paste: translate end of line sequences to target OS native ones
• BZ - 815639 - [virt-viewer]virt-viewer failed to initialize smartcard when using reconnect&wait
• BZ - 830760 - Don't grab mouse cursor on client --> server mouse mode switch
• BZ - 834513 - RFE: print list of channels usable by binary to GSpice-DEBUG upon library initialization
• BZ - 855870 - Remote-viewer segfaults during spice migration with SSL when running from cli
• BZ - 879352 - spice-gtk shouldn't ignore secure channels controller message and it should provide equivalent cli option
• BZ - 879651 - print actual host where spice-session.c connects
• BZ - 882329 - accept CA certificate directly, not as a file
• BZ - 885101 - Sometimes waiting time a bit long when remote-viewer connecting to a unreachable graphic server
• BZ - 906558 - spice client crashes at first Shift-Ctrl-V in Microsoft Outlook
• BZ - 948618 - Proxy server and RHEV-M integration, doesn't work with RHEL client virt-viewer.
• BZ - 955277 - only one desktop effect to be disabled can be specified
• BZ - 961452 - rebase spice-gtk against latest release (0.19 or later)
• BZ - 978405 - [RFE] adaptive video streaming
• BZ - 980400 - spice-gtk should require glib >= 2.26
• BZ - 996459 - gtk2 Python bindings are broken for the usb-widget
• BZ - 997893 - remote-viewer does not exit gracefully after File transfer
• BZ - 998529 - Mouse pointer appears black on PuTTY terminals opened from windows 7 guests

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.5_Technical_Notes/spice-gtk.html#RHBA-2013-1577