RHEA-2013:1667 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated spice-xpi packages that fix one bug and add one enhancement 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 bug:

• Prior to this update, the spice-xpi browser plug-in did not remove the

/tmp/spicec-XXXXXX/spice-foreign socket and the /tmp/spicec-XXXXXX/ directory,
so they were still present after client had exited. This bug has been fixed, and
the browser plug-in now removes the above mentioned file and directory after
client exits. (BZ#882339)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancement:

• Proxy support for SPICE connection has been added to the spice-xpi browser

plug-in. With this update, spice-xpi is now able to pass the proxy setting to
the SPICE client it spawns, for example, when opening a console from the Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization Manager portal. (BZ#994613)

Users of spice-xpi are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix
this bug and add this enhancement. 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.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red
Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/site/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 - 882339 - spice-xpi doesn't clean up /tmp/spicec-XXXXXX/spice-foreign socket and /tmp/spicec-XXXXXX directory after the client exits
• BZ - 994613 - spice-xpi: Add Proxy property

CVEs

(none)

References

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