CVE-2021-41219

Summary

CVECVE-2021-41219
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-11-05 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-11-09 16:12:00 UTC
DescriptionTensorFlow is an open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions the code for sparse matrix multiplication is vulnerable to undefined behavior via binding a reference to `nullptr`. This occurs whenever the dimensions of `a` or `b` are 0 or less. In the case on one of these is 0, an empty output tensor should be allocated (to conserve the invariant that output tensors are always allocated when the operation is successful) but nothing should be written to it (that is, we should return early from the kernel implementation). Otherwise, attempts to write to this empty tensor would result in heap OOB access. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.7.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.6.1, TensorFlow 2.5.2, and TensorFlow 2.4.4, as these are also affected and still in supported range.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Google Tensorflow All All All All
Application Google Tensorflow 2.6.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Validate that matrix dimension sizes in SparseMatMul are positive. · tensorflow/tensorflow@e6cf28c · GitHub MISC github.com
Undefined behavior via `nullptr` reference binding in sparse matrix multiplication · Advisory · tensorflow/tensorflow · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 980184 Python (pip) Security Update for tensorflow-gpu (GHSA-4f99-p9c2-3j8x)

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