RHBA-2014:0644 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated rhevm-spice-client packages that fix several bugs and add various
enhancements are now available.

Description

Updated rhevm-spice-client packages are now available.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager provides access to virtual machines
using SPICE. These SPICE client packages provide the SPICE client for both
Windows 32-bit operating systems and Windows 64-bit operating systems.

All administrators of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environments are advised
to install these updated packages.

Changes to the mingw-virt-viewer component:

• Previously, upgrading a VDI infrastructure to Red Hat Enterprise

Virtualization 3.3, launching the client using Internet Explorer, and setting
the display to full screen caused unexpected behavior. The display did not
resize to full screen. After fixing the problem, the screen resizes properly.
(BZ#1069735)

• Previously, copying and pasting plain-text information from a Windows client

into a Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machine suffered occasional
interruptions, causing copy and paste operations to fail. To fix this, a
replacement .dll file was created. As a result, copy and paste operations work
as expected. (BZ#956659)

• Previously, connecting to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 host using SPICE was

not functioning. Attempting to do this caused a warning in the console. This
problem has been fixed and now connecting to virtual machines running on a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 5 host works properly. (BZ#1017864)

• Previously, starting a virtual machine in full screen, but then exiting full

screen mode before login to enable multiple displays caused the additional
displays to open in full screen. This issue was fixed, and now additional
displays are not opened in full-screen mode when the user changes the initial
display to windowed mode. (BZ#1037662)

• Previously, migration of a virtual machine with a client connected using a

mime connection file and SSL would fall back to non-seamless migration. This was
caused by the CA not being correctly copied from memory. Now, the CA is copied
to the destination session, making it possible to complete seamless migration
successfully. (BZ#1036833)

• Previously, virt-viewer was unable to handle large copy and paste operations.

If a very large amount of text was copied, then mingw-virt-viewer displayed a
failure to allocate memory error. After fixing this bug, up to 100 MB of data
can be copied and pasted. (BZ#1017250)

• Previously, it was possible to open consoles to virtual machines using the

SPICE protocol even when the canonical name used in the connection matched the
host name or IP address but did not match the explicitly set host subject. Now,
the logic used to verify connections prioritizes the confirmation of the host
subject, preventing connections where the canonical name and host subject do not
match. (BZ#873318)

Changes to the spice-activex-win component:

• SPICE ActiveX no longer crashes on Internet Explorer 11. (BZ#1052309)

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 Virtualization 3.4 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 873318 - if CN matches hostname/IP but does not match explicitly set host subject, the connection should fail
• BZ - 1017250 - avoid some allocation failure on c&p
• BZ - 1017864 - Cannot connect to VMs on RHEL5 host
• BZ - 1036833 - client_migrate_info fails when r-v connects through vv file over SSL encryption
• BZ - 1037662 - Adding a second display to first, results with a black screen of unusable 2nd display.
• BZ - 1052309 - SPICE ActiveX crashes on IE 11
• BZ - 1069735 - guest not resized on entering full-screen after upgrade to RHEV 3.3
• BZ - 1085809 - rhevm-spice-client rpms: RHEV-M 3.4 -- A bug for the errata advisory

CVEs

(none)

References

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