NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting tensorflow/tensorflow package, versions [,2.1.4)[2.2.0,2.2.3)[2.3.0,2.3.3)[2.4.0,2.4.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TENSORFLOWTENSORFLOW-2333511
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 May 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 May 2021

CVE-2021-29518  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tensorflow/tensorflow to version 2.1.4, 2.2.3, 2.3.3, 2.4.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. In eager mode (default in TF 2.0 and later), session operations are invalid. However, users could still call the raw ops associated with them and trigger a null pointer dereference. The implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/eebb96c2830d48597d055d247c0e9aebaea94cd5/tensorflow/core/kernels/session_ops.cc#L104) dereferences the session state pointer without checking if it is valid. Thus, in eager mode, ctx->session_state() is nullptr and the call of the member function is undefined behavior. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.5.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.4.2, TensorFlow 2.3.3, TensorFlow 2.2.3 and TensorFlow 2.1.4, as these are also affected and still in supported range.

CVSS Scores

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