Segfault in `CTCBeamSearchDecoder`

Summary

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. Due to lack of validation in `tf.raw_ops.CTCBeamSearchDecoder`, an attacker can trigger denial of service via segmentation faults. The implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/a74768f8e4efbda4def9f16ee7e13cf3922ac5f7/tensorflow/core/kernels/ctc_decoder_ops.cc#L68-L79) fails to detect cases when the input tensor is empty and proceeds to read data from a null buffer. 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. May 14, 2021, 7:15 PM UTCCVE published
2. Aug 3, 2024, 10:11 PM UTCRecord last updated

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; 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

• 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

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