CVE-2021-37661

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-37661
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-08-12 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-08-18 21:09:00 UTC
DescriptionTensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions an attacker can cause a denial of service in `boosted_trees_create_quantile_stream_resource` by using negative arguments. The [implementation](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/84d053187cb80d975ef2b9684d4b61981bca0c41/tensorflow/core/kernels/boosted_trees/quantile_ops.cc#L96) does not validate that `num_streams` only contains non-negative numbers. In turn, [this results in using this value to allocate memory](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/84d053187cb80d975ef2b9684d4b61981bca0c41/tensorflow/core/kernels/boosted_trees/quantiles/quantile_stream_resource.h#L31-L40). However, `reserve` receives an unsigned integer so there is an implicit conversion from a negative value to a large positive unsigned. This results in a crash from the standard library. We have patched the issue in GitHub commit 8a84f7a2b5a2b27ecf88d25bad9ac777cd2f7992. 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-681

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Google Tensorflow All All All All
Application Google Tensorflow 2.5.0 All All All
Application Google Tensorflow 2.6.0 rc0 All All
Application Google Tensorflow 2.6.0 rc1 All All
Application Google Tensorflow 2.6.0 rc2 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Ensure num_streams >= 0 in tf.raw_ops.BoostedTreesCreateQuantileStrea… · tensorflow/tensorflow@8a84f7a · GitHub MISC github.com
Crash caused by integer conversion to unsigned · Advisory · tensorflow/tensorflow · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
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Legacy QID Mappings

  • 981530 Python (pip) Security Update for tensorflow-gpu (GHSA-gf88-j2mg-cc82)

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