PyPi: Tensorflow

CVE-2021-41219

Safety vulnerability ID: 42466

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The information on this page was manually curated by our Cybersecurity Intelligence Team.

Created at Nov 05, 2021 Updated at Oct 25, 2024
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Advisory

Tensorflow versions 2.4.4, 2.5.2 and 2.6.1 include a fix for CVE-2021-41219: In affected versions, the code for sparse matrix multiplication is vulnerable to undefined behavior via binding a reference to 'nullptr'. This occurs whenever the dimensions of 'a' or 'b' are 0 or less. In the case on one of these is 0, an empty output tensor should be allocated (to conserve the invariant that output tensors are always allocated when the operation is successful) but nothing should be written to it (that is, it should return early from the kernel implementation). Otherwise, attempts to write to this empty tensor would result in heap OOB access. The fix is included in TensorFlow 2.7.0.
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/security/advisories/GHSA-4f99-p9c2-3j8x
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/e6cf28c72ba2eb949ca950d834dd6d66bb01cfae

Affected package

tensorflow

Latest version: 2.18.0

TensorFlow is an open source machine learning framework for everyone.

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

TensorFlow is an open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions the code for sparse matrix multiplication is vulnerable to undefined behavior via binding a reference to `nullptr`. This occurs whenever the dimensions of `a` or `b` are 0 or less. In the case on one of these is 0, an empty output tensor should be allocated (to conserve the invariant that output tensors are always allocated when the operation is successful) but nothing should be written to it (that is, we should return early from the kernel implementation). Otherwise, attempts to write to this empty tensor would result in heap OOB access. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.7.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.6.1, TensorFlow 2.5.2, and TensorFlow 2.4.4, as these are also affected and still in supported range. See CVE-2021-41219.


CONFIRM:https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/security/advisories/GHSA-4f99-p9c2-3j8x: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/security/advisories/GHSA-4f99-p9c2-3j8x
MISC:https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/e6cf28c72ba2eb949ca950d834dd6d66bb01cfae: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/e6cf28c72ba2eb949ca950d834dd6d66bb01cfae

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Severity Details

CVSS Base Score

HIGH 7.8

CVSS v3 Details

HIGH 7.8
Attack Vector (AV)
LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC)
LOW
Privileges Required (PR)
LOW
User Interaction (UI)
NONE
Scope (S)
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact (C)
HIGH
Integrity Impact (I)
HIGH
Availability Availability (A)
HIGH

CVSS v2 Details

MEDIUM 4.6
Access Vector (AV)
LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC)
LOW
Authentication (Au)
NONE
Confidentiality Impact (C)
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact (I)
PARTIAL
Availability Impact (A)
PARTIAL