Issued:

2014-10-13

Updated:

2014-10-13

RHBA-2014:1560 - spice-xpi bug fix update

Synopsis

spice-xpi bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated spice-xpi packages that fix one bug 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 fix the following update:

• Due to a bug in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager web admin portal, it was possible to open a second SPICE console, which caused the SPICE plug-in to terminate unexpectedly. With this update, the underlying source code has been modified to address this bug and the console no longer crashes in the described scenario. (BZ#1073461)

Users of spice-xpi are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug. After installing the update, the Mozilla Firefox browser 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/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• spice-xpi-2.7-25.el6.x86_64.rpm
• spice-xpi-2.7-25.el6.src.rpm
• spice-xpi-debuginfo-2.7-25.el6.x86_64.rpm
• spice-xpi-debuginfo-2.7-25.el6.i686.rpm
• spice-xpi-2.7-25.el6.i686.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1073461

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/.
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