RHBA-2013:1159 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated spice-gtk packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The spice-gtk packages provide a GIMP Toolkit (GTK+) widget for SPICE (Simple
Protocol for Independent Computing Environments) clients. Both Virtual Machine
Manager and Virtual Machine Viewer can make use of this widget to access virtual
machines using the SPICE protocol.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Prior to this update, image palettes (mapping of an ID to a bitmap) that were

not rendered on the client side were not cached in the client even though they
were marked as cached in the server. As a result, a client application, which
attempted to use image palettes that were not cached, terminated unexpectedly.
This occurred, for example, when the Shift-Ctrl-V keyboard shortcut was used to
bring up the "Move Items" dialog box in Microsoft Outlook in the client. With
this update, image palettes, which are not rendered, are now properly cached,
and the aforementioned crashes no longer occur. (BZ#988924)

Users of spice-gtk are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix
this bug.

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 for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• 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 Update Support from RHUI 6.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.4 i386
• Red Hat Gluster Storage Server for On-premise 2.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Storage for Public Cloud (via RHUI) 2.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 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 - 988924 - spice client crashes at first Shift-Ctrl-V in Microsoft Outlook

CVEs

(none)

References

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