Issued:

2011-12-06

Updated:

2011-12-06

RHBA-2011:1577 - spice-vdagent bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

spice-vdagent bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

An updated spice-vdagent package that fixes multiple bugs and adds various enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The spice-vdagent package provides a SPICE agent for Linux guests.

The spice-vdagent package has been upgraded to upstream version 0.8.1, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#722477)

Note: the system must be rebooted in order for these changes to take effect.

Users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these bugs and adds these enhancements.

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 This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259/

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• spice-vdagent-debuginfo-0.8.1-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
• spice-vdagent-0.8.1-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
• spice-vdagent-0.8.1-3.el6.src.rpm
• spice-vdagent-debuginfo-0.8.1-3.el6.i686.rpm
• spice-vdagent-0.8.1-3.el6.i686.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 681797
• This content is not included.BZ - 690164
• This content is not included.BZ - 722477

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.