Fedora 21: ipython Security Update 2015-11767
Summary
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.
Update Information:
Fix CSRF issue. - Fix font-awesome paths (bug #1219956) - Add upstream patch to fix PyQt4 import (bug #1219997) - Use python2 macros, fix python3 shebang fix Fix fontawesome path
Change Log
* Thu Jul 16 2015 Orion Poplawski
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1243842 - CVE-2015-5607 iptyhon: cross-site request forgery in get_origin() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243842
Update Instructions
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 .