Issued:
2012-06-20
Updated:
2012-06-20

RHBA-2012:0767 - spice-gtk bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

spice-gtk bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated spice-gtk packages that fix multiple bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The spice-gtk packages provide a GTK2 widget for SPICE clients. Both virt-manager and virt-viewer can make use of this widget to access virtual machines using the SPICE protocol.

The spice-gtk packages have been updated to upstream version 0.11, which fixes multiple bugs and adds multiple enhancements. These packages also add support for native USB redirection. (BZ#773642)

This update also fixes the following bugs:

  • Prior to this update, the spice-gtk client could abort unexpectedly when the audio system failed to initialize. This update ignores audio initialization failures so that spice-gtk also works with failed audio system initialization. (BZ#772118)

  • Prior to this update, memory leaks could, under certain circumstances, occur when the guest resolution was changed. This update modifies the underlying code so that changing the resolution no longer causes memory leaks. (BZ#805641)

  • Prior to this update, videos showed a blue tint when using guests hosted on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 host. This update uses the correct color conversion also on older SPICE servers so that videos are now correctly tinted. (BZ#807389)

  • Prior to this update, copying large amounts of text could cause a stack overflow. As a consequence SPICE clients that use the spice-gtk widget could abort with a segmentation fault. This update no longer allocates large amounts of data on the stack and large clipboard data can now be copied to the server. (BZ#809145)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancement:

  • Prior to this update, the spice-gtk widget did not provide a native USB redirection. This update adds USB redirection support to spice-gtk. (BZ#758100)

All users of spice-gtk are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add 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 https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258/

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Retired Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • spice-glib-0.11-11.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • spice-gtk-tools-0.11-11.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • spice-gtk-python-0.11-11.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • spice-gtk-0.11-11.el6.i686.rpm
  • spice-gtk-devel-0.11-11.el6.i686.rpm
  • spice-gtk-devel-0.11-11.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • spice-glib-devel-0.11-11.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • spice-gtk-debuginfo-0.11-11.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • spice-gtk-0.11-11.el6.src.rpm
  • spice-gtk-tools-0.11-11.el6.i686.rpm
  • spice-glib-devel-0.11-11.el6.i686.rpm
  • spice-gtk-debuginfo-0.11-11.el6.i686.rpm
  • spice-gtk-python-0.11-11.el6.i686.rpm
  • spice-glib-0.11-11.el6.i686.rpm
  • spice-gtk-0.11-11.el6.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

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References

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Additional information