NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting tensorflow-cpu package, versions [2.3.0,2.3.4)[2.4.0,2.4.3)[2.5.0,2.5.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-TENSORFLOWCPU-2314950
  • published10 Dec 2021
  • disclosed12 Aug 2021
  • creditYakun Zhang of Baidu Security

Introduced: 12 Aug 2021

CVE-2021-37688  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tensorflow-cpu to version 2.3.4, 2.4.3, 2.5.1 or higher.

Overview

tensorflow-cpu is a machine learning framework.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions an attacker can craft a TFLite model that would trigger a null pointer dereference, which would result in a crash and denial of service. The implementation unconditionally dereferences a pointer. We have patched the issue in GitHub commit 15691e456c7dc9bd6be203b09765b063bf4a380c. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.6.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.5.1, TensorFlow 2.4.3, and TensorFlow 2.3.4, as these are also affected and still in supported range.

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