[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: ipython-2.4.1-8.fc22
updates at fedoraproject.org
updates at fedoraproject.org
Fri Sep 18 01:34:41 UTC 2015
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-14902
2015-09-17 21:57:09.572655
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Name : ipython
Product : Fedora 22
Version : 2.4.1
Release : 8.fc22
URL : http://ipython.org/
Summary : An enhanced interactive Python shell
Description :
IPython provides a replacement for the interactive Python interpreter with
extra functionality.
Main features:
* Comprehensive object introspection.
* Input history, persistent across sessions.
* Caching of output results during a session with automatically generated
references.
* Readline based name completion.
* Extensible system of 'magic' commands for controlling the environment and
performing many tasks related either to IPython or the operating system.
* Configuration system with easy switching between different setups (simpler
than changing $PYTHONSTARTUP environment variables every time).
* Session logging and reloading.
* Extensible syntax processing for special purpose situations.
* Access to the system shell with user-extensible alias system.
* Easily embeddable in other Python programs.
* Integrated access to the pdb debugger and the Python profiler.
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Update Information:
Add upstream patch to fix XSS vulnerability (bug #1259405)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1259405 - CVE-2015-6938 ipython: XSS via local folder name
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259405
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update ipython' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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