NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting tensorflow package, versions [,1.15.4)[2.0.0, 2.0.3)[2.1.0, 2.1.2)[2.2.0, 2.2.1)[2.3.0, 2.3.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-TENSORFLOW-1013553
  • published29 Sept 2020
  • disclosed28 Sept 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-15209  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tensorflow to version 1.15.4, 2.0.3, 2.1.2, 2.2.1, 2.3.1 or higher.

Overview

tensorflow is a machine learning framework.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. 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.

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