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Medium · 4.0 CVE-2020-15213 BIT-tensorflow-2020-15213EUVD-2020-0209GHSA-hjmq-236j-8m87PYSEC-2020-136PYSEC-2020-293PYSEC-2020-328

Denial of service in tensorflow-lite

Published Sep 25, 2020 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

In TensorFlow Lite before versions 2.2.1 and 2.3.1, models using segment sum can trigger a denial of service by causing an out of memory allocation in the implementation of segment sum. Since code uses the last element of the tensor holding them to determine the dimensionality of output tensor, attackers can use a very large value to trigger a large allocation. The issue is patched in commit 204945b19e44b57906c9344c0d00120eeeae178a and is released in TensorFlow versions 2.2.1, or 2.3.1. A potential workaround would be to add a custom `Verifier` to limit the maximum value in the segment ids tensor. This only handles the case when the segment ids are stored statically in the model, but a similar validation could be done if the segment ids are generated at runtime, between inference steps. However, if the segment ids are generated as outputs of a tensor during inference steps, then there are no possible workaround and users are advised to upgrade to patched code.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
tensorflow tensorflow = 2.2.0, = 2.3.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI tensorflow >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.1 2.2.1 GHSA-hjmq-236j-8m87
PyPI tensorflow >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.1 2.3.1 GHSA-hjmq-236j-8m87
PyPI tensorflow >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.1 · >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.1 2.2.1, 2.3.1 PYSEC-2020-136
PyPI tensorflow-cpu >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.1 2.2.1 GHSA-hjmq-236j-8m87
PyPI tensorflow-cpu >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.1 2.3.1 GHSA-hjmq-236j-8m87
PyPI tensorflow-cpu >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.1 · >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.1 2.2.1, 2.3.1 PYSEC-2020-293
PyPI tensorflow-gpu >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.1 2.2.1 GHSA-hjmq-236j-8m87
PyPI tensorflow-gpu >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.1 2.3.1 GHSA-hjmq-236j-8m87
PyPI tensorflow-gpu >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.1 · >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.1 2.2.1, 2.3.1 PYSEC-2020-328

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