CVE-2021-41219

Undefined behavior via `nullptr` reference binding in sparse matrix multiplication

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Nov 5, 2021
Updated
Aug 4, 2024
Reserved
Sep 15, 2021

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Description

TensorFlow is an open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions the code for sparse matrix multiplication is vulnerable to undefined behavior via binding a reference to `nullptr`. This occurs whenever the dimensions of `a` or `b` are 0 or less. In the case on one of these is 0, an empty output tensor should be allocated (to conserve the invariant that output tensors are always allocated when the operation is successful) but nothing should be written to it (that is, we should return early from the kernel implementation). Otherwise, attempts to write to this empty tensor would result in heap OOB access. 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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-824 Access of Uninitialized Pointer

Affected Products

ProductVersions
tensorflowtensorflow
  • >= 2.6.0, < 2.6.1Affected
  • >= 2.5.0, < 2.5.2Affected
  • < 2.4.4Affected

References

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