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CVE-2021-29518GHSA-62GX-355R-9FHGBIT-TENSORFLOW-2021-29518PYSEC-2021-155PYSEC-2021-446PYSEC-2021-644

Session operations in eager mode lead to null pointer dereferences

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Fix
Fixed in 2.1.4, 2.2.3, 2.3.3, 2.4.2
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. In eager mode (default in TF 2.0 and later), session operations are invalid. However, users could still call the raw ops associated with them and trigger a null pointer dereference. The implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/eebb96c2830d48597d055d247c0e9aebaea94cd5/tensorflow/core/kernels/session_ops.cc#L104) dereferences the session state pointer without checking if it is valid. Thus, in eager mode, `ctx->session_state()` is nullptr and the call of the member function is undefined behavior. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.5.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.4.2, TensorFlow 2.3.3, TensorFlow 2.2.3 and TensorFlow 2.1.4, as these are also affected and still in supported range.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
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Affected versions

  • tensorflow tensorflow

    fixed in 2.1.4; From 2.2.0 · fixed in 2.2.3; From 2.3.0 · fixed in 2.3.3; From 2.4.0 · fixed in 2.4.2

  • tensorflowPyPI

    fixed in 2.1.4

  • tensorflowPyPI

    From 2.2.0 · fixed in 2.2.3

  • tensorflowPyPI

    From 2.3.0 · fixed in 2.3.3

  • tensorflowPyPI

    From 2.4.0 · fixed in 2.4.2

  • tensorflow-cpuPyPI

    fixed in 2.1.4

  • tensorflow-cpuPyPI

    From 2.2.0 · fixed in 2.2.3

  • tensorflow-cpuPyPI

    From 2.3.0 · fixed in 2.3.3

  • tensorflow-cpuPyPI

    From 2.4.0 · fixed in 2.4.2

  • tensorflow-gpuPyPI

    fixed in 2.1.4

  • tensorflow-gpuPyPI

    From 2.2.0 · fixed in 2.2.3

  • tensorflow-gpuPyPI

    From 2.3.0 · fixed in 2.3.3

  • tensorflow-gpuPyPI

    From 2.4.0 · fixed in 2.4.2

  • tensorflow-cpuPyPI

    fixed in 2.1.4; From 2.2.0 · fixed in 2.2.3; From 2.3.0 · fixed in 2.3.3; From 2.4.0 · fixed in 2.4.2

  • tensorflow-gpuPyPI

    fixed in 2.1.4; From 2.2.0 · fixed in 2.2.3; From 2.3.0 · fixed in 2.3.3; From 2.4.0 · fixed in 2.4.2

  • tensorflowPyPI

    fixed in 2.1.4; From 2.2.0 · fixed in 2.2.3; From 2.3.0 · fixed in 2.3.3; From 2.4.0 · fixed in 2.4.2

References 2

GitHub · tensorflow/tensorflow