CVE-2021-29541

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. An attacker can trigger a dereference of a null pointer in `tf.raw_ops.StringNGrams`. This is because the implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/1cdd4da14282210cc759e468d9781741ac7d01bf/tensorflow/core/kernels/string_ngrams_op.cc#L67-L74) does not fully validate the `data_splits` argument. This would result in `ngrams_data`(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/1cdd4da14282210cc759e468d9781741ac7d01bf/tensorflow/core/kernels/string_ngrams_op.cc#L106-L110) to be a null pointer when the output would be computed to have 0 or negative size. Later writes to the output tensor would then cause a null pointer dereference. 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.
Configurations

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History

20 May 2021, 16:21

Type Values Removed Values Added
References (CONFIRM) https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/security/advisories/GHSA-xqfj-35wv-m3cr - (CONFIRM) https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/security/advisories/GHSA-xqfj-35wv-m3cr - Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
References (MISC) https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/ba424dd8f16f7110eea526a8086f1a155f14f22b - (MISC) https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/ba424dd8f16f7110eea526a8086f1a155f14f22b - Patch, Third Party Advisory
CWE CWE-476
CPE cpe:2.3:a:google:tensorflow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : 2.1
v3 : 5.5

14 May 2021, 20:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2021-05-14 20:15

Updated : 2023-12-10 13:55


NVD link : CVE-2021-29541

Mitre link : CVE-2021-29541

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2021-29541


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Products Affected

google

  • tensorflow
CWE
CWE-476

NULL Pointer Dereference