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Low · 2.5 CVE-2021-29541 BIT-tensorflow-2021-29541EUVD-2021-0282GHSA-xqfj-35wv-m3crPYSEC-2021-178PYSEC-2021-469PYSEC-2021-667

Null pointer dereference in `StringNGrams`

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 dereference of a null pointer in `tf.raw_ops.StringNGrams`. This is because the implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/1cdd4da14282210cc759e468d9781741ac7d01bf/tensorflow/core/kernels/string_ngrams_op.cc#L67-L74) does not fully validate the `data_splits` argument. This would result in `ngrams_data`(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/1cdd4da14282210cc759e468d9781741ac7d01bf/tensorflow/core/kernels/string_ngrams_op.cc#L106-L110) to be a null pointer when the output would be computed to have 0 or negative size. Later writes to the output tensor would then cause a null pointer dereference. 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-xqfj-35wv-m3cr
PyPI tensorflow >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3 2.2.3 GHSA-xqfj-35wv-m3cr
PyPI tensorflow >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 2.3.3 GHSA-xqfj-35wv-m3cr
PyPI tensorflow >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 2.4.2 GHSA-xqfj-35wv-m3cr
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-2021-178
PyPI tensorflow-cpu < 2.1.4 2.1.4 GHSA-xqfj-35wv-m3cr
PyPI tensorflow-cpu >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3 2.2.3 GHSA-xqfj-35wv-m3cr
PyPI tensorflow-cpu >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 2.3.3 GHSA-xqfj-35wv-m3cr
PyPI tensorflow-cpu >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 2.4.2 GHSA-xqfj-35wv-m3cr
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-2021-469
PyPI tensorflow-gpu < 2.1.4 2.1.4 GHSA-xqfj-35wv-m3cr
PyPI tensorflow-gpu >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3 2.2.3 GHSA-xqfj-35wv-m3cr
PyPI tensorflow-gpu >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 2.3.3 GHSA-xqfj-35wv-m3cr
PyPI tensorflow-gpu >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 2.4.2 GHSA-xqfj-35wv-m3cr
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-2021-667

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