GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-vqw6-72r7-fgw7 OOB read in `MatrixTriangularSolve`
LOW
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- Aliases
- CVE-2021-29551
- 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
- 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 `MatrixTriangularSolve` fails to terminate kernel execution if one validation condition fails:
```cc
void ValidateInputTensors(OpKernelContext* ctx, const Tensor& in0,
const Tensor& in1) override {
OP_REQUIRES(
ctx, in0.dims() >= 2,
errors::InvalidArgument("In[0] ndims must be >= 2: ", in0.dims()));
OP_REQUIRES(
ctx, in1.dims() >= 2,
errors::InvalidArgument("In[0] ndims must be >= 2: ", in1.dims()));
}
void Compute(OpKernelContext* ctx) override {
const Tensor& in0 = ctx->input(0);
const Tensor& in1 = ctx->input(1);
ValidateInputTensors(ctx, in0, in1);
MatMulBCast bcast(in0.shape().dim_sizes(), in1.shape().dim_sizes());
...
}
```
Since `OP_REQUIRES` only sets `ctx->status()` to a non-OK value and calls `return`, this allows malicious attackers to trigger an out of bounds read:
```python
import tensorflow as tf
import numpy as np
matrix_array = np.array([])
matrix_tensor = tf.convert_to_tensor(np.reshape(matrix_array,(1,0)),dtype=tf.float32)
rhs_array = np.array([])
rhs_tensor = tf.convert_to_tensor(np.reshape(rhs_array,(0,1)),dtype=tf.float32)
tf.raw_ops.MatrixTriangularSolve(matrix=matrix_tensor,rhs=rhs_tensor,lower=False,adjoint=False)
```
As the two input tensors are empty, the `OP_REQUIRES` in `ValidateInputTensors` should fire and interrupt execution. However, given the implementation of `OP_REQUIRES`, after the `in0.dims() >= 2` fails, execution moves to the initialization of the `bcast` object. This initialization is done with invalid data and results in heap OOB read.
Patches
We have patched the issue in GitHub commit 480641e3599775a8895254ffbc0fc45621334f68.
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
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Attribution
This vulnerability has been reported by Ye Zhang and Yakun Zhang of Baidu X-Team.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2021-29551 TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/security/advisories/GHSA-vqw6-72r7-fgw7 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-29551 advisory
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/480641e3599775a8895254ffbc0fc45621334f68 web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/tensorflow-cpu/PYSEC-2021-479.yaml web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/tensorflow-gpu/PYSEC-2021-677.yaml web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/tensorflow/PYSEC-2021-188.yaml web
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow package