Uninitialized Memory Exposure Affecting tensorflow-cpu package, versions [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

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.2% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-TENSORFLOWCPU-1013447
  • published28 Sept 2020
  • disclosed25 Sept 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-15192  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-201  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tensorflow-cpu to version 2.2.1, 2.3.1 or higher.

Overview

tensorflow-cpu is a machine learning framework.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uninitialized Memory Exposure. If a user passes a list of strings to dlpack.to_dlpack there is a memory leak following an expected validation failure. The issue occurs because the status argument during validation failures is not properly checked.

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