# CVE-2022-29210: Heap buffer overflow due to incorrect hash function in TensorFlow

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-3339, BIT-TENSORFLOW-2022-29210, GHSA-HC2F-7R5R-R2HG, PYSEC-2026-1007, PYSEC-2026-3200
- Severity: CVSS 5.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.8.1
- Published: 2022-05-20 · Updated: 2025-04-23

## Affected

- tensorflow: 2.8.0
- tensorflow-cpu (PyPI): from 2.8.0, fixed in 2.8.1
- tensorflow-gpu (PyPI): from 2.8.0, fixed in 2.8.1
- tensorflow (PyPI): from 2.8.0, fixed in 2.8.1

## Description

TensorFlow is an open source platform for machine learning. In version 2.8.0, the `TensorKey` hash function used total estimated `AllocatedBytes()`, which (a) is an estimate per tensor, and (b) is a very poor hash function for constants (e.g. `int32_t`). It also tried to access individual tensor bytes through `tensor.data()` of size `AllocatedBytes()`. This led to ASAN failures because the `AllocatedBytes()` is an estimate of total bytes allocated by a tensor, including any pointed-to constructs (e.g. strings), and does not refer to contiguous bytes in the `.data()` buffer. The discoverers could not use this byte vector anyway because types such as `tstring` include pointers, whereas they needed to hash the string values themselves. This issue is patched in Tensorflow versions 2.9.0 and 2.8.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on tensorflow, tensorflow-cpu, tensorflow-gpu, upgrade to a fixed version (2.8.1) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/releases/tag/v2.8.1
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/releases/tag/v2.9.0
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/security/advisories/GHSA-hc2f-7r5r-r2hg
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/1b85a28d395dc91f4d22b5f9e1e9a22e92ccecd6
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/f3b9bf4c3c0597563b289c0512e98d4ce81f886e/tensorflow/core/framework/tensor_key.h#L53-L64

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