CVE-2021-29513

Type confusion during tensor casts lead to dereferencing null pointers

State: Published
Severity: 2.5 Low
Published: May 14, 2021
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: Mar 30, 2021

Description

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. Calling TF operations with tensors of non-numeric types when the operations expect numeric tensors result in null pointer dereferences. The conversion from Python array to C++ array(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/ff70c47a396ef1e3cb73c90513da4f5cb71bebba/tensorflow/python/lib/core/ndarray_tensor.cc#L113-L169) is vulnerable to a type confusion. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.5.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.4.2, TensorFlow 2.3.3, TensorFlow 2.2.3 and TensorFlow 2.1.4, as these are also affected and still in supported range.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	2.5 Low	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Affected Products

Product	Versions
tensorflowtensorflow	< 2.1.4Affected >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3Affected >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3Affected >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2Affected

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