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Low · 2.5 CVE-2021-29535 BIT-tensorflow-2021-29535EUVD-2021-0276GHSA-m3f9-w3p3-p669PYSEC-2021-172PYSEC-2021-463PYSEC-2021-661

Heap buffer overflow in `QuantizedMul`

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 cause a heap buffer overflow in `QuantizedMul` by passing in invalid thresholds for the quantization. This is because the implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/87cf4d3ea9949051e50ca3f071fc909538a51cd0/tensorflow/core/kernels/quantized_mul_op.cc#L287-L290) assumes that the 4 arguments are always valid scalars and tries to access the numeric value directly. However, if any of these tensors is empty, then `.flat<T>()` is an empty buffer and accessing the element at position 0 results in overflow. 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-m3f9-w3p3-p669
PyPI tensorflow >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3 2.2.3 GHSA-m3f9-w3p3-p669
PyPI tensorflow >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 2.3.3 GHSA-m3f9-w3p3-p669
PyPI tensorflow >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 2.4.2 GHSA-m3f9-w3p3-p669
PyPI tensorflow < 2.2.0rc0 · >= 2.2.0, < 2.3.0rc0 · >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.4 · >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.3 2.2.0rc0, 2.3.0rc0, 2.3.4, 2.4.3 PYSEC-2021-172
PyPI tensorflow-cpu < 2.1.4 2.1.4 GHSA-m3f9-w3p3-p669
PyPI tensorflow-cpu >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3 2.2.3 GHSA-m3f9-w3p3-p669
PyPI tensorflow-cpu >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 2.3.3 GHSA-m3f9-w3p3-p669
PyPI tensorflow-cpu >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 2.4.2 GHSA-m3f9-w3p3-p669
PyPI tensorflow-cpu < 2.2.0rc0 · >= 2.2.0, < 2.3.0rc0 · >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.4 · >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.3 2.2.0rc0, 2.3.0rc0, 2.3.4, 2.4.3 PYSEC-2021-463
PyPI tensorflow-gpu < 2.1.4 2.1.4 GHSA-m3f9-w3p3-p669
PyPI tensorflow-gpu >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3 2.2.3 GHSA-m3f9-w3p3-p669
PyPI tensorflow-gpu >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 2.3.3 GHSA-m3f9-w3p3-p669
PyPI tensorflow-gpu >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 2.4.2 GHSA-m3f9-w3p3-p669
PyPI tensorflow-gpu < 2.2.0rc0 · >= 2.2.0, < 2.3.0rc0 · >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.4 · >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.3 2.2.0rc0, 2.3.0rc0, 2.3.4, 2.4.3 PYSEC-2021-661

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