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Low · 2.5 CVE-2021-29545 BIT-tensorflow-2021-29545EUVD-2021-0286GHSA-hmg3-c7xj-6qwmPYSEC-2021-182PYSEC-2021-473PYSEC-2021-671

Heap buffer overflow in `SparseTensorToCSRSparseMatrix`

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 converting sparse tensors to CSR Sparse matrices. This is because the implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/800346f2c03a27e182dd4fba48295f65e7790739/tensorflow/core/kernels/sparse/kernels.cc#L66) does a double redirection to access an element of an array allocated on the heap. If the value at `indices(i, 0)` is such that `indices(i, 0) + 1` is outside the bounds of `csr_row_ptr`, this results in writing outside of bounds of heap allocated data. 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-hmg3-c7xj-6qwm
PyPI tensorflow >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3 2.2.3 GHSA-hmg3-c7xj-6qwm
PyPI tensorflow >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 2.3.3 GHSA-hmg3-c7xj-6qwm
PyPI tensorflow >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 2.4.2 GHSA-hmg3-c7xj-6qwm
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-2021-182
PyPI tensorflow-cpu < 2.1.4 2.1.4 GHSA-hmg3-c7xj-6qwm
PyPI tensorflow-cpu >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3 2.2.3 GHSA-hmg3-c7xj-6qwm
PyPI tensorflow-cpu >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 2.3.3 GHSA-hmg3-c7xj-6qwm
PyPI tensorflow-cpu >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 2.4.2 GHSA-hmg3-c7xj-6qwm
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-2021-473
PyPI tensorflow-gpu < 2.1.4 2.1.4 GHSA-hmg3-c7xj-6qwm
PyPI tensorflow-gpu >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3 2.2.3 GHSA-hmg3-c7xj-6qwm
PyPI tensorflow-gpu >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 2.3.3 GHSA-hmg3-c7xj-6qwm
PyPI tensorflow-gpu >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 2.4.2 GHSA-hmg3-c7xj-6qwm
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-2021-671

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