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Low · 2.5 CVE-2021-29521 BIT-tensorflow-2021-29521EUVD-2021-0262GHSA-hr84-fqvp-48mmPYSEC-2021-158PYSEC-2021-449PYSEC-2021-647

Segfault in SparseCountSparseOutput

Published May 14, 2021 · Updated Aug 3, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. Specifying a negative dense shape in `tf.raw_ops.SparseCountSparseOutput` results in a segmentation fault being thrown out from the standard library as `std::vector` invariants are broken. This is because the implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/8f7b60ee8c0206a2c99802e3a4d1bb55d2bc0624/tensorflow/core/kernels/count_ops.cc#L199-L213) assumes the first element of the dense shape is always positive and uses it to initialize a `BatchedMap<T>` (i.e., `std::vector<absl::flat_hash_map<int64,T>>`(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/8f7b60ee8c0206a2c99802e3a4d1bb55d2bc0624/tensorflow/core/kernels/count_ops.cc#L27)) data structure. If the `shape` tensor has more than one element, `num_batches` is the first value in `shape`. Ensuring that the `dense_shape` argument is a valid tensor shape (that is, all elements are non-negative) solves this issue. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.5.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.4.2 and TensorFlow 2.3.3.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
tensorflow tensorflow < 2.3.3, >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI tensorflow >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 2.3.3 GHSA-hr84-fqvp-48mm
PyPI tensorflow >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 2.4.2 GHSA-hr84-fqvp-48mm
PyPI tensorflow >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 · >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 2.3.3, 2.4.2 PYSEC-2021-158
PyPI tensorflow-cpu >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 2.3.3 GHSA-hr84-fqvp-48mm
PyPI tensorflow-cpu >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 2.4.2 GHSA-hr84-fqvp-48mm
PyPI tensorflow-cpu >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 · >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 2.3.3, 2.4.2 PYSEC-2021-449
PyPI tensorflow-gpu >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 2.3.3 GHSA-hr84-fqvp-48mm
PyPI tensorflow-gpu >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 2.4.2 GHSA-hr84-fqvp-48mm
PyPI tensorflow-gpu >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 · >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 2.3.3, 2.4.2 PYSEC-2021-647

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