CVE-2020-15205

Advisory

Tensorflow versions 1.15.4, 2.0.3, 2.1.2, 2.2.1 and 2.3.1 include a fix for CVE-2020-15205: In Tensorflow before versions 1.15.4, 2.0.3, 2.1.2, 2.2.1 and 2.3.1, the 'data_splits' argument of 'tf.raw_ops.StringNGrams' lacks validation. This allows a user to pass values that can cause heap overflow errors and even leak contents of memory In the linked code snippet, all the binary strings after 'ee ff' are contents from the memory stack. Since these can contain return addresses, this data leak can be used to defeat ASLR.
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/security/advisories/GHSA-g7p5-5759-qv46

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

Bug Fixes and Other Changes
* Fixes an undefined behavior causing a segfault in `tf.raw_ops.Switch`
([CVE-2020-15190](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15190))
* Fixes three vulnerabilities in conversion to DLPack format
([CVE-2020-15191](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15191),
[CVE-2020-15192](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15192),
[CVE-2020-15193](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15193))
* Fixes two vulnerabilities in `SparseFillEmptyRowsGrad`
([CVE-2020-15194](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15194),
[CVE-2020-15195](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15195))
* Fixes an integer truncation vulnerability in code using the work sharder API
([CVE-2020-15202](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15202))
* Fixes a format string vulnerability in `tf.strings.as_string`
([CVE-2020-15203](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15203))
* Fixes segfault raised by calling session-only ops in eager mode
([CVE-2020-15204](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15204))
* Fixes data leak and potential ASLR violation from `tf.raw_ops.StringNGrams`
([CVE-2020-15205](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15205))
* Fixes segfaults caused by incomplete `SavedModel` validation
([CVE-2020-15206](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15206))
* Fixes a data corruption due to a bug in negative indexing support in TFLite
([CVE-2020-15207](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15207))
* Fixes a data corruption due to dimension mismatch in TFLite
([CVE-2020-15208](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15208))
* Fixes several vulnerabilities in TFLite saved model format
([CVE-2020-15209](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15209),
[CVE-2020-15210](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15210),
[CVE-2020-15211](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15211))
* Updates `sqlite3` to `3.33.00` to handle
[CVE-2020-9327](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-9327),
[CVE-2020-11655](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-11655),
[CVE-2020-11656](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-11656),
[CVE-2020-13434](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-13434),
[CVE-2020-13435](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-13435),
[CVE-2020-13630](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-13630),
[CVE-2020-13631](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-13631),
[CVE-2020-13871](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-13871),
and
[CVE-2020-15358](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15358).
* Removes `scipy` dependency from `setup.py` since TensorFlow does not need it
to install the pip package
* Switches ROCM builds to use ROCM 3.7

Resources

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00065.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15205
• https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/0462de5b544ed4731aa2fb23946ac22c01856b80
• https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/releases/tag/v2.3.1
• https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/security/advisories/GHSA-g7p5-5759-qv46