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Low · 2.5 CVE-2021-29583 BIT-tensorflow-2021-29583EUVD-2021-0324GHSA-9xh4-23q4-v6wrPYSEC-2021-220PYSEC-2021-511PYSEC-2021-709

Heap buffer overflow and undefined behavior in `FusedBatchNorm`

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. The implementation of `tf.raw_ops.FusedBatchNorm` is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow. If the tensors are empty, the same implementation can trigger undefined behavior by dereferencing null pointers. The implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/57d86e0db5d1365f19adcce848dfc1bf89fdd4c7/tensorflow/core/kernels/fused_batch_norm_op.cc) fails to validate that `scale`, `offset`, `mean` and `variance` (the last two only when required) all have the same number of elements as the number of channels of `x`. This results in heap out of bounds reads when the buffers backing these tensors are indexed past their boundary. If the tensors are empty, the validation mentioned in the above paragraph would also trigger and prevent the undefined behavior. 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-9xh4-23q4-v6wr
PyPI tensorflow >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3 2.2.3 GHSA-9xh4-23q4-v6wr
PyPI tensorflow >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 2.3.3 GHSA-9xh4-23q4-v6wr
PyPI tensorflow >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 2.4.2 GHSA-9xh4-23q4-v6wr
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-2021-220
PyPI tensorflow-cpu < 2.1.4 2.1.4 GHSA-9xh4-23q4-v6wr
PyPI tensorflow-cpu >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3 2.2.3 GHSA-9xh4-23q4-v6wr
PyPI tensorflow-cpu >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 2.3.3 GHSA-9xh4-23q4-v6wr
PyPI tensorflow-cpu >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 2.4.2 GHSA-9xh4-23q4-v6wr
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-2021-511
PyPI tensorflow-gpu < 2.1.4 2.1.4 GHSA-9xh4-23q4-v6wr
PyPI tensorflow-gpu >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3 2.2.3 GHSA-9xh4-23q4-v6wr
PyPI tensorflow-gpu >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 2.3.3 GHSA-9xh4-23q4-v6wr
PyPI tensorflow-gpu >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 2.4.2 GHSA-9xh4-23q4-v6wr
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-2021-709

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