RHBA-2015:1394 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated spice-server packages that fix two bugs 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.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, when using the "rhel6.0.0" Quick Emulator (QEMU) machine

type, the guest could receive invalid drawing commands. Consequently,
spice-server terminated unexpectedly. With this update, spice-server detects
these invalid drawing commands and ignores them. As a result, spice-server no
longer crashes when using the "rhel6.0.0" QEMU machine type. (BZ#1135372)

• Previously, when using a client with the spice-gtk package version 0.12 or

earlier, spice-server did not correctly handle resetting a guest. Consequently,
spice-server could terminate unexpectedly with a segmentation fault when
resetting a guest. With this update, spice-server properly handles a NULL
pointer dereference in the code that handles the spice agent channel, thus
avoiding the segmentation fault. As a result, spice-server no longer crashes in
this situation. (BZ#1163480)

Users of spice-server 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 - 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 - 1135372 - Machine type rhel6.0.0 & -vga qxl & vnc cause qemu-kvm core dump

CVEs

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References

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