RHBA-2018:3068 - 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 7.6 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 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1549132 - Audio recording is discontinued after reconnection to VM
• BZ - 1562213 - [RFE][spice] Need the ability to set which TLS version the spice connection will use.
• BZ - 1566597 - Call SSL_CTX_set_ecdh_auto() in reds_init_ssl() to get ECDH/PFS
• BZ - 1567944 - Spice-CRITICAL **: memslot.c:122:memslot_get_virt: address generation is not valid, group_id 1, slot_id 0, gen 1, slot_gen 0

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.6_release_notes/index