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CVE-2021-29519GHSA-772J-H9XW-FFP5BIT-TENSORFLOW-2021-29519PYSEC-2021-156PYSEC-2021-447PYSEC-2021-645

CHECK-fail in SparseCross due to type confusion

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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. The API of `tf.raw_ops.SparseCross` allows combinations which would result in a `CHECK`-failure and denial of service. This is because the implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/3d782b7d47b1bf2ed32bd4a246d6d6cadc4c903d/tensorflow/core/kernels/sparse_cross_op.cc#L114-L116) is tricked to consider a tensor of type `tstring` which in fact contains integral elements. Fixing the type confusion by preventing mixing `DT_STRING` and `DT_INT64` types solves this issue. 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

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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-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

  • 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

  • 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