CVE-2021-29541CWE-476

Null pointer dereference in `StringNGrams`

Low · published May 14, 2021

CVSS v3.1
2.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. An attacker can trigger a dereference of a null pointer in `tf.raw_ops.StringNGrams`. This is because the implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/1cdd4da14282210cc759e468d9781741ac7d01bf/tensorflow/core/kernels/string_ngrams_op.cc#L67-L74) does not fully validate the `data_splits` argument. This would result in `ngrams_data`(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/1cdd4da14282210cc759e468d9781741ac7d01bf/tensorflow/core/kernels/string_ngrams_op.cc#L106-L110) to be a null pointer when the output would be computed to have 0 or negative size. Later writes to the output tensor would then cause a null pointer dereference. 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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
2.5 · LOW
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00189 · 8.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2021-05-14T19:11Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 MAY 19:11Z
    Null pointer dereference in `StringNGrams`
    cvelistv5