QID 981553

QID 981553: Python (pip) Security Update for tensorflow-gpu (GHSA-cmgw-8vpc-rc59)

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.

Under certain conditions, Go code can trigger a segfault in string deallocation.


For string tensors, `C.TF_TString_Dealloc` is called during garbage collection within a finalizer function. However, tensor structure isn't checked until encoding to avoid a performance penalty. The current method for dealloc assumes that encoding succeeded, but segfaults when a string tensor is garbage collected whose encoding failed (e.g., due to mismatched dimensions).

To fix this, the call to set the finalizer function is deferred until `NewTensor` returns and, if encoding failed for a string tensor, deallocs are determined based on bytes written.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Medium - 5.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Low - 2.1 severity.
  • Solution
    We have patched the issue in GitHub commit [8721ba96e5760c229217b594f6d2ba332beedf22](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/8721ba96e5760c229217b594f6d2ba332beedf22) (merging [#50508](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/pull/50508)).

    The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.6.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.5.1, which is the other affected version.
    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 981553

    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    GHSA-cmgw-8vpc-rc59 tensorflow URL Logo github.com/advisories/GHSA-cmgw-8vpc-rc59
    GHSA-cmgw-8vpc-rc59 tensorflow-cpu URL Logo github.com/advisories/GHSA-cmgw-8vpc-rc59
    GHSA-cmgw-8vpc-rc59 tensorflow-gpu URL Logo github.com/advisories/GHSA-cmgw-8vpc-rc59

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