GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-c9qf-r67m-p7cg Null pointer dereference in `CompressElement`
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2021-37637
- 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
It is possible to trigger a null pointer dereference in TensorFlow by passing an invalid input to `tf.raw_ops.CompressElement`:
```python
import tensorflow as tf
tf.raw_ops.CompressElement(components=[[]])
```
The implementation was accessing the size of a buffer obtained from the return of a separate function call before validating that said buffer is valid.
Patches
We have patched the issue in GitHub commit 5dc7f6981fdaf74c8c5be41f393df705841fb7c5.
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. Concurrently, it was resolved in `master` branch as it was also discovered internally and fixed before the report was handled.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2021-37637 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-c9qf-r67m-p7cg web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-37637 advisory
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/5dc7f6981fdaf74c8c5be41f393df705841fb7c5 web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/tensorflow-cpu/PYSEC-2021-550.yaml web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/tensorflow-gpu/PYSEC-2021-748.yaml web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/tensorflow/PYSEC-2021-259.yaml web
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow package