Use After Free Affecting tensorflow package, versions [2.5.0,2.5.1) [2.4.0,2.4.3) [,2.3.4)
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- published 13 Aug 2021
- disclosed 13 Aug 2021
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 13 Aug 2021
CVE-2021-37652 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade tensorflow to version 2.5.1, 2.4.3, 2.3.4 or higher.
Overview
tensorflow is a machine learning framework.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. The implementation for tf.raw_ops.BoostedTreesCreateEnsemble can result in a use after free error if an attacker supplies specially crafted arguments. The implementation uses a reference counted resource and decrements the refcount if the initialization fails, as it should. However, when the code was written, the resource was represented as a naked pointer but later refactoring has changed it to be a smart pointer. Thus, when the pointer leaves the scope, a subsequent free-ing of the resource occurs, but this fails to take into account that the refcount has already reached 0, thus the resource has been already freed. During this double-free process, members of the resource object are accessed for cleanup but they are invalid as the entire resource has been freed.