RHBA-2018:0802 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for spice is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is a remote display system built for virtual environments which allows the user to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of spice are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

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

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 7 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A) 7 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1274447 - Remote viewer only presents 1 display after reboot of 2 displays.
• BZ - 1373725 - A dialog box pops up and can't be closed normally when drag a file into guest with filetransfer disabled.
• BZ - 1431205 - spice - local support for virgil (virtio-gpu)
• BZ - 1436251 - Print audio codec used for record/playback channels during channel creation in debug outputs
• BZ - 1456832 - Build spice-server with opus support
• BZ - 1471000 - Add support for stream device and rebase spice-protocol
• BZ - 1472948 - spice: rebase to latest upstream release (0.14.x)
• BZ - 1539735 - Only one feasible display after remote-viewer connection to fully established VM

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.5_release_notes/index.html