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CVE-2021-29541PYSEC-2021-667BIT-TENSORFLOW-2021-29541GHSA-XQFJ-35WV-M3CRPYSEC-2021-178PYSEC-2021-469

Null pointer dereference in `StringNGrams`

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Not listed in CISA KEV
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. An attacker can trigger a dereference of a null pointer in `tf.raw_ops.StringNGrams`. This is because the implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/1cdd4da14282210cc759e468d9781741ac7d01bf/tensorflow/core/kernels/string_ngrams_op.cc#L67-L74) does not fully validate the `data_splits` argument. This would result in `ngrams_data`(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/1cdd4da14282210cc759e468d9781741ac7d01bf/tensorflow/core/kernels/string_ngrams_op.cc#L106-L110) to be a null pointer when the output would be computed to have 0 or negative size. Later writes to the output tensor would then cause a null pointer dereference. 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

  • 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

  • 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

References 2

GitHub · tensorflow/tensorflow