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python-tornado — security advisory
Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.5.6, Tornado gzip decompression routines processed limited-size chunks but did not enforce an overall limit on accumulated decompressed chunks, allowing a malicious server accessed by SimpleAsyncHTTPClient or an HTTPServer configured with decompress_request=True to consume effectively unlimited memory. This issue is fixed in version 6.5.6.
- Products
- python-tornado
- Affected versions
- 6.2.0-3, 6.2.0-3+deb12u1, 6.2.0-3+deb12u2, 6.2.0-3+deb12u3, 6.2.0-3+deb12u4, 6.3.2-1, 6.4.0-1, 6.4.0-2, 6.4.1-1, 6.4.1-2, 6.4.1-3, 6.4.2-1, 6.4.2-2, 6.4.2-3, 6.4.2-3+deb13u1, 6.4.2-3+deb13u2, 6.5.2-1, 6.5.2-2, 6.5.2-3, 6.5.4-0.1, 6.5.4-1, 6.5.5-1, 6.5.5-2, 6.5.5-3, 6.5.5-4, 6.5.5-5
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-49855
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:52 UTC · Revision 2
Source evidence
Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.5.6, Tornado gzip decompression routines processed limited-size chunks but did not enforce an overall limit on accumulated decompressed chunks, allowing a malicious server accessed by SimpleAsyncHTTPClient or an HTTPServer configured with decompress_request=True to consume effectively unlimited memory. This issue is fixed in version 6.5.6.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2026-49855
python-tornado
Fixed versions: Not specified
python-tornado
Fixed versions: Not specified
python-tornado
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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