RHBA-2015:1393 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated spice-xpi packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The spice-xpi packages provide the Simple Protocol for Independent Computing
Environments (SPICE) extension for Mozilla that allows the SPICE client to be
used from a web browser.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, after enabling a proxy for a SPICE connection opened through the

spice-xpi plug-in, the only way the user could unset the proxy was to close or
reopen the web page. This update modifies spice-xpi to unset the SPICE_PROXY
environment variable when the proxy is unset. As a result, unsetting a proxy for
a SPICE connection works as expected. (BZ#1049475)

• Prior to this update, certain spice-xpi properties were not recorded in the

spice-xpi.log file. These properties were only displayed in the
/var/log/messages file. With this update, spice-xpi has been modified to
properly log reading or setting the "smartcard", "color-depth",
"disable-effects", and "proxy" properties of the spice-xpi browser plug-in. As a
result, these events are now visible in spice-xpi.log. (BZ#1049486)

Users of spice-xpi are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix
these bugs. After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the
changes to take effect.

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 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 - 1049475 - RHEVM sends to XPI SPICE plugin always SPICE proxy even one unchecks this options in Console Options
• BZ - 1049486 - [spice-xpi] no info about proxy in spice-xpi.log even it virtually use proxy

CVEs

(none)

References

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