GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-7xwj-5r4v-429p NPE in TFLite
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2021-37681
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- tensorflow, tensorflow-cpu, tensorflow-gpu
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
- Reviewed
- 2021-08-24
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 implementation of SVDF in TFLite is vulnerable to a null pointer error:
```cc
TfLiteTensor* state = GetVariableInput(context, node, kStateTensor);
// ...
GetTensorData(state)
```
The `GetVariableInput` function can return a null pointer but `GetTensorData` assumes that the argument is always a valid tensor.
```cc
TfLiteTensor* GetVariableInput(TfLiteContext* context, const TfLiteNode* node,
int index) {
TfLiteTensor* tensor = GetMutableInput(context, node, index);
return tensor->is_variable ? tensor : nullptr;
}
```
Furthermore, because `GetVariableInput` calls `GetMutableInput` which might return `nullptr`, the `tensor->is_variable` expression can also trigger a null pointer exception.
Patches
We have patched the issue in GitHub commit 5b048e87e4e55990dae6b547add4dae59f4e1c76.
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-2021-37681 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-7xwj-5r4v-429p web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-37681 advisory
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/5b048e87e4e55990dae6b547add4dae59f4e1c76 web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/tensorflow-cpu/PYSEC-2021-594.yaml web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/tensorflow-gpu/PYSEC-2021-792.yaml web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/tensorflow/PYSEC-2021-303.yaml web
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow package
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/460e000de3a83278fb00b61a16d161b1964f15f4/tensorflow/lite/kernels/svdf.cc#L300-L313 web