Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

Overview tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data Data Amplification in the AsyncHTTPClient. An attacker can cause excessive memory...

GHSA-MGF9-4VPG-HJ56 tornado AsyncHTTPClient accumulates decompressed chunks without size limit (gzip bomb)

Tornado's gzip decompression routines work in limited-size chunks, but have no overall limit for the total size of decompressed chunks that they will accumulate There has always been a limit for the total compressed size. This allows a malicious server to consume effectively unlimited amounts of...