GHSA-cx3h-4qpv-8hc9 Tornado has out-of-bounds memory access via C extension

• PyPI tornado: < 6.5.6 → fixed in 6.5.6

Summary Tornado's optional native extension `tornado.speedups` implements `websocket_mask` without validating that the `mask` argument is exactly four bytes long. The C function reads four bytes from `mask` unconditionally, even when Python passes a shorter byte string. This can read beyond the provided buffer, exposing up to 3 bytes of uninitialized memory. The behavior is reachable from Tornado's XSRF token decoder when `xsrf_cookies=True` and the native extension is active. Mitigations This bug is fixed in Tornado 6.5.6. Prior to upgrading to this version, setting the environment variable TORNADO_EXTENSION=0 will disable the vulnerable code (at the expense of reducing websocket performance).