IPython Notebook 0.12 through 1.x before 1.2 does not validate the origin of websocket requests, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging knowledge of the kernel id and a crafted page.

Updated ipython package fixes security vulnerability :

In IPython before 1.2, the origin of websocket requests was not verified within the IPython notebook server. If an attacker has knowledge of an IPython kernel id they can run arbitrary code on a user's machine when the client visits a crafted malicious page (CVE-2014-3429).

This IPython update fixes the following security issue :

  - RCE in IPython Notebook via cross-origin websocket     connection (CVE-2014-3429, bnc#887577)

Security fix for CVE-2014-3429

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
82413	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ipython (MDVSA-2015:160)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	medium
77366	openSUSE Security Update : IPython (openSUSE-SU-2014:1060-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
77096	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ipython (MDVSA-2014:157)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	medium
76848	Fedora 19 : ipython-0.13.2-4.fc19 (2014-8402)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
76846	Fedora 20 : ipython-0.13.2-4.fc20 (2014-8394)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

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CVE-2014-3429

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