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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2014-1913
2014-07-16 02:54:02
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Name : ipython
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 0.13.2
Release : 5.el6
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:
Security fix for CVE-2014-3429
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1119890 - CVE-2014-3429 ipython: cross-domain websocket hijacking
vulnerability
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1119890
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update ipython' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL 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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