Issued:
2012-02-20
Updated:
2012-02-20

RHEA-2012:0174 - spice-usb-share enhancement update

Synopsis

spice-usb-share enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An enhanced spice-usb-share package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The spice-usb-share package consists of non-free USB drivers which are used to share USB devices with a guest operating system connected via SPICE.

This updated spice-usb-share package adds the following enhancement:

  • The spice-usb-share package has been upgraded to version 4.9, which ensures that USB devices are shared correctly with SPICE client 0.8.1. (BZ#718816)

Users of spice-usb-share are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which adds this enhancement.

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

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64

Updated Packages

  • spice-usb-share-4.9-10.el5.src.rpm
  • spice-usb-share-4.9-10.el5.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information