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CVE-2021-29542PYSEC-2021-668BIT-TENSORFLOW-2021-29542GHSA-4HRH-9VMP-2JGGPYSEC-2021-179PYSEC-2021-470

Heap buffer overflow in `StringNGrams`

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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. An attacker can cause a heap buffer overflow by passing crafted inputs to `tf.raw_ops.StringNGrams`. This is because the implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/1cdd4da14282210cc759e468d9781741ac7d01bf/tensorflow/core/kernels/string_ngrams_op.cc#L171-L185) fails to consider corner cases where input would be split in such a way that the generated tokens should only contain padding elements. If input is such that `num_tokens` is 0, then, for `data_start_index=0` (when left padding is present), the marked line would result in reading `data[-1]`. 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.

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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

  • 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

  • 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