Issued:
2015-07-22
Updated:
2015-07-22

RHBA-2015:1393 - spice-xpi bug fix update

Synopsis

spice-xpi bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated spice-xpi packages that fix two bugs 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 fixes the following bugs:

  • Previously, after enabling a proxy for a SPICE connection opened through the spice-xpi plug-in, the only way the user could unset the proxy was to close or reopen the web page. This update modifies spice-xpi to unset the SPICE_PROXY environment variable when the proxy is unset. As a result, unsetting a proxy for a SPICE connection works as expected. (BZ#1049475)

  • Prior to this update, certain spice-xpi properties were not recorded in the spice-xpi.log file. These properties were only displayed in the /var/log/messages file. With this update, spice-xpi has been modified to properly log reading or setting the "smartcard", "color-depth", "disable-effects", and "proxy" properties of the spice-xpi browser plug-in. As a result, these events are now visible in spice-xpi.log. (BZ#1049486)

Users of spice-xpi are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs. After installing the update, Firefox 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.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/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 - 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-xpi-2.7-27.el6.src.rpm
  • spice-xpi-debuginfo-2.7-27.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • spice-xpi-2.7-27.el6.i686.rpm
  • spice-xpi-2.7-27.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • spice-xpi-debuginfo-2.7-27.el6.i686.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information