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Low · 2.5 CVE-2021-29523 BIT-tensorflow-2021-29523EUVD-2021-0264GHSA-2cpx-427x-q2c6PYSEC-2021-160PYSEC-2021-451PYSEC-2021-649

CHECK-fail in AddManySparseToTensorsMap

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. An attacker can trigger a denial of service via a `CHECK`-fail in `tf.raw_ops.AddManySparseToTensorsMap`. This is because the implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/6f9896890c4c703ae0a0845394086e2e1e523299/tensorflow/core/kernels/sparse_tensors_map_ops.cc#L257) takes the values specified in `sparse_shape` as dimensions for the output shape. The `TensorShape` constructor(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/6f9896890c4c703ae0a0845394086e2e1e523299/tensorflow/core/framework/tensor_shape.cc#L183-L188) uses a `CHECK` operation which triggers when `InitDims`(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/6f9896890c4c703ae0a0845394086e2e1e523299/tensorflow/core/framework/tensor_shape.cc#L212-L296) returns a non-OK status. This is a legacy implementation of the constructor and operations should use `BuildTensorShapeBase` or `AddDimWithStatus` to prevent `CHECK`-failures in the presence of overflows. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.5.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.4.2, TensorFlow 2.3.3, TensorFlow 2.2.3 and TensorFlow 2.1.4, as these are also affected and still in supported range.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
tensorflow tensorflow < 2.1.4, >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3, >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3, >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI tensorflow < 2.1.4 2.1.4 GHSA-2cpx-427x-q2c6
PyPI tensorflow >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3 2.2.3 GHSA-2cpx-427x-q2c6
PyPI tensorflow >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 2.3.3 GHSA-2cpx-427x-q2c6
PyPI tensorflow >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 2.4.2 GHSA-2cpx-427x-q2c6
PyPI tensorflow < 2.1.4 · >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3 · >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 · >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 2.1.4, 2.2.3, 2.3.3, 2.4.2 PYSEC-2021-160
PyPI tensorflow-cpu < 2.1.4 2.1.4 GHSA-2cpx-427x-q2c6
PyPI tensorflow-cpu >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3 2.2.3 GHSA-2cpx-427x-q2c6
PyPI tensorflow-cpu >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 2.3.3 GHSA-2cpx-427x-q2c6
PyPI tensorflow-cpu >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 2.4.2 GHSA-2cpx-427x-q2c6
PyPI tensorflow-cpu < 2.1.4 · >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3 · >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 · >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 2.1.4, 2.2.3, 2.3.3, 2.4.2 PYSEC-2021-451
PyPI tensorflow-gpu < 2.1.4 2.1.4 GHSA-2cpx-427x-q2c6
PyPI tensorflow-gpu >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3 2.2.3 GHSA-2cpx-427x-q2c6
PyPI tensorflow-gpu >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 2.3.3 GHSA-2cpx-427x-q2c6
PyPI tensorflow-gpu >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 2.4.2 GHSA-2cpx-427x-q2c6
PyPI tensorflow-gpu < 2.1.4 · >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3 · >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 · >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 2.1.4, 2.2.3, 2.3.3, 2.4.2 PYSEC-2021-649

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