CVE-2021-29541

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
tensorflowtensorflow< 2.1.4affected
tensorflowtensorflow>= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3affected
tensorflowtensorflow>= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3affected
tensorflowtensorflow>= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-476: CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

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