QID 980160

QID 980160: Python (pip) Security Update for tensorflow-gpu (GHSA-57wx-m983-2f88)

Security update has been released for tensorflow-gpu,tensorflow,tensorflow-cpu to fix the vulnerability.

Note: The preceding description block is extracted directly from the security advisory. Using automation, we have attempted to clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The [code for boosted trees in TensorFlow](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/e0b6e58c328059829c3eb968136f17aa72b6c876/tensorflow/core/kernels/boosted_trees/stats_ops.cc) is still missing validation. As a result, attackers can trigger denial of service (via dereferencing `nullptr`s or via `CHECK`-failures) as well as abuse undefined behavior (binding references to `nullptr`s). An attacker can also read and write from heap buffers, depending on the API that gets used and the arguments that are passed to the call.

**Note**: Given that the boosted trees implementation in TensorFlow is unmaintained, it is recommend to no longer use these APIs. Instead, please use the downstream [TensorFlow Decision Forests](https://github.com/tensorflow/decision-forests) project which is newer and supports more features. We will deprecate TensorFlow's boosted trees APIs in subsequent releases.

CVSS V3 rated as High - 7.8 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 4.6 severity.

Solution

We have patched the issue in GitHub commit [5c8c9a8bfe750f9743d0c859bae112060b216f5c](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/5c8c9a8bfe750f9743d0c859bae112060b216f5c).

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.

Vendor References

GHSA-57wx-m983-2f88 - github.com/advisories/GHSA-57wx-m983-2f88

CVEs related to QID 980160

CVE-2021-41208 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Link
GHSA-57wx-m983-2f88	tensorflow	github.com/advisories/GHSA-57wx-m983-2f88
GHSA-57wx-m983-2f88	tensorflow-cpu	github.com/advisories/GHSA-57wx-m983-2f88
GHSA-57wx-m983-2f88	tensorflow-gpu	github.com/advisories/GHSA-57wx-m983-2f88

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