CVE-2020-15209

Null pointer dereference in tensorflow-lite

State
Published
Severity
5.9 Medium
Published
Sep 25, 2020
Updated
Aug 4, 2024
Reserved
Jun 25, 2020

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Description

In tensorflow-lite before versions 1.15.4, 2.0.3, 2.1.2, 2.2.1 and 2.3.1, a crafted TFLite model can force a node to have as input a tensor backed by a `nullptr` buffer. This can be achieved by changing a buffer index in the flatbuffer serialization to convert a read-only tensor to a read-write one. The runtime assumes that these buffers are written to before a possible read, hence they are initialized with `nullptr`. However, by changing the buffer index for a tensor and implicitly converting that tensor to be a read-write one, as there is nothing in the model that writes to it, we get a null pointer dereference. The issue is patched in commit 0b5662bc, and is released in TensorFlow versions 1.15.4, 2.0.3, 2.1.2, 2.2.1, or 2.3.1.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.9 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-476 {"CWE-476":"NULL Pointer Dereference"}

Affected Products

ProductVersions
tensorflowtensorflow
  • < 1.15.4Affected
  • >= 2.0.0, < 2.0.3Affected
  • >= 2.1.0, < 2.1.2Affected
  • >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.1Affected
  • >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.1Affected

References

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