CVE-2021-29581

Segfault in `CTCBeamSearchDecoder`

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. Due to lack of validation in `tf.raw_ops.CTCBeamSearchDecoder`, an attacker can trigger denial of service via segmentation faults. The implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/a74768f8e4efbda4def9f16ee7e13cf3922ac5f7/tensorflow/core/kernels/ctc_decoder_ops.cc#L68-L79) fails to detect cases when the input tensor is empty and proceeds to read data from a null buffer. 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-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource

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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