Use After Free Affecting tensorflow-gpu package, versions [2.5.0,2.5.1)[2.4.0,2.4.3)[,2.3.4)


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-TENSORFLOWGPU-1540787
  • published13 Aug 2021
  • disclosed13 Aug 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Aug 2021

CVE-2021-37652  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

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

Overview

tensorflow-gpu 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.

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