Ubuntu Security Update USN-7950-1: Tornado vulnerabilities

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It was discovered that Tornado incorrectly handled special characters in HTTP headers. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute a cross- site scripting (XSS) attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 25.04, and Ubuntu 25.10. (CVE-2025-67724) It was discovered that Tornado incorrectly handled repeated HTTP headers. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Tornado to use excessive resources, causing a denial of service. (CVE-2025-67725) It was discovered that Tornado incorrectly handled parsing of certain HTTP header values. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Tornado to use excessive resources, causing a denial of service. (CVE-2025-67726)

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