RHBA-2015:1392 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated spice-vdagent packages that fix two 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:

• Previously, when using a SPICE client and the SPICE protocol to connect to a

virtual machine, copying and pasting text to and from the client failed for
certain applications running in the guest. This update ensures that the
spice-vdagent utility properly handles the TIMESTAMP and STRING selection types,
and the problem no longer occurs. (BZ#1117764)

• Prior to this update, SPICE agents in some cases did not properly store the

resolution of the guest screen opened by virt viewer. Consequently, the
resolution of the guest screen unintentionally changed in certain situations,
such as after enabling and disabling a second guest screen. This update ensures
that guest screen resolution is stored properly, and thus prevents the described
problem. (BZ#1209550)

• Due to a race condition between the SPICE client and the guest's

gnome-settings-daemon, using the SPICE client to re-enable a previously disabled
guest display in some cases failed. This update ensures that
gnome-settings-daemon no longer unintentionally attempts to enable or disable
guest displays, which prevents the problem from occurring. (BZ#1086657)

• After disabling a guest display using the remote-viewer menu, the disabled

display was in some cases immediately re-enabled. This update fixes the
underlying code, and disabled guest displays no longer get automatically
reactivated.(BZ#1206117)

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.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/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 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 - 1086657 - Cannot get same result when enabled second monitor after disabled it in guest with "Display Perference"
• BZ - 1206117 - Disabled display comes out again after uncheck it
• BZ - 1206663 - Can't Drag'n'Drop file 2.4GB client->guest
• BZ - 1209550 - Disabling one but last display changes resolution of the first display

CVEs

(none)

References

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