GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-6gv8-p3vj-pxvr Null pointer dereference in `UncompressElement`
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2021-37649
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- tensorflow, tensorflow-cpu, tensorflow-gpu
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
- Reviewed
- 2021-08-23
Affected packages
• PyPI tensorflow: < 2.3.4 → fixed in 2.3.4
• PyPI tensorflow: >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.3 → fixed in 2.4.3
• PyPI tensorflow: >= 2.5.0, < 2.5.1 → fixed in 2.5.1
• PyPI tensorflow-cpu: < 2.3.4 → fixed in 2.3.4
• PyPI tensorflow-cpu: >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.3 → fixed in 2.4.3
• PyPI tensorflow-cpu: >= 2.5.0, < 2.5.1 → fixed in 2.5.1
• PyPI tensorflow-gpu: < 2.3.4 → fixed in 2.3.4
• PyPI tensorflow-gpu: >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.3 → fixed in 2.4.3
• PyPI tensorflow-gpu: >= 2.5.0, < 2.5.1 → fixed in 2.5.1
Description
Impact
The code for `tf.raw_ops.UncompressElement` can be made to trigger a null pointer dereference:
```python
import tensorflow as tf
data = tf.data.Dataset.from_tensors([0.0])
tf.raw_ops.UncompressElement(
compressed=tf.data.experimental.to_variant(data),
output_types=[tf.int64],
output_shapes=[2])
```
The implementation obtains a pointer to a `CompressedElement` from a `Variant` tensor and then proceeds to dereference it for decompressing. There is no check that the `Variant` tensor contained a `CompressedElement`, so the pointer is actually `nullptr`.
Patches
We have patched the issue in GitHub commit 7bdf50bb4f5c54a4997c379092888546c97c3ebd.
The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.6.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.5.1, TensorFlow 2.4.3, and TensorFlow 2.3.4, as these are also affected and still in supported range.
For more information
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Attribution
This vulnerability has been reported by members of the Aivul Team from Qihoo 360.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2021-37649 TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/security/advisories/GHSA-6gv8-p3vj-pxvr web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-37649 advisory
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/7bdf50bb4f5c54a4997c379092888546c97c3ebd web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/tensorflow-cpu/PYSEC-2021-562.yaml web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/tensorflow-gpu/PYSEC-2021-760.yaml web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/tensorflow/PYSEC-2021-271.yaml web
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow package