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Medium · 5.5 CVE-2021-37692 BIT-tensorflow-2021-37692EUVD-2021-0418GHSA-cmgw-8vpc-rc59PYSEC-2021-314PYSEC-2021-605PYSEC-2021-803

Segfault on strings tensors with mistmatched dimensions in TensorFlow

Published Aug 12, 2021 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions under certain conditions, Go code can trigger a segfault in string deallocation. For string tensors, `C.TF_TString_Dealloc` is called during garbage collection within a finalizer function. However, tensor structure isn't checked until encoding to avoid a performance penalty. The current method for dealloc assumes that encoding succeeded, but segfaults when a string tensor is garbage collected whose encoding failed (e.g., due to mismatched dimensions). To fix this, the call to set the finalizer function is deferred until `NewTensor` returns and, if encoding failed for a string tensor, deallocs are determined based on bytes written. We have patched the issue in GitHub commit 8721ba96e5760c229217b594f6d2ba332beedf22. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.6.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.5.1, which is the other affected version.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
tensorflow tensorflow >= 2.5.0, < 2.5.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3 bazel-skylib1.0.3 1.0.3-bp153.2.1 openSUSE-SU-2022:10014-1
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3 bazel3.7 3.7.2-bp153.4.1 openSUSE-SU-2022:10014-1
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3 tensorflow2 +3 2.6.0-bp153.2.3.1 openSUSE-SU-2022:10014-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 15.3 bazel-skylib1.0.3 1.0.3-bp153.2.1 openSUSE-SU-2022:10014-1
openSUSE Leap 15.3 bazel3.7 3.7.2-bp153.4.1 openSUSE-SU-2022:10014-1
openSUSE Leap 15.3 tensorflow2 +3 2.6.0-bp153.2.3.1 openSUSE-SU-2022:10014-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI tensorflow >= 2.5.0rc0, < 2.5.1 2.5.1 GHSA-cmgw-8vpc-rc59
PyPI tensorflow >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.4 · >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.3 2.3.4, 2.4.3 PYSEC-2021-314
PyPI tensorflow-cpu >= 2.5.0rc0, < 2.5.1 2.5.1 GHSA-cmgw-8vpc-rc59
PyPI tensorflow-cpu >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.4 · >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.3 2.3.4, 2.4.3 PYSEC-2021-605
PyPI tensorflow-gpu >= 2.5.0rc0, < 2.5.1 2.5.1 GHSA-cmgw-8vpc-rc59
PyPI tensorflow-gpu >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.4 · >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.3 2.3.4, 2.4.3 PYSEC-2021-803

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