CVE-2021-29583CWE-476

Heap buffer overflow and undefined behavior in `FusedBatchNorm`

Low · published May 14, 2021

CVSS v3.1
2.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
10.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. The implementation of `tf.raw_ops.FusedBatchNorm` is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow. If the tensors are empty, the same implementation can trigger undefined behavior by dereferencing null pointers. The implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/57d86e0db5d1365f19adcce848dfc1bf89fdd4c7/tensorflow/core/kernels/fused_batch_norm_op.cc) fails to validate that `scale`, `offset`, `mean` and `variance` (the last two only when required) all have the same number of elements as the number of channels of `x`. This results in heap out of bounds reads when the buffers backing these tensors are indexed past their boundary. If the tensors are empty, the validation mentioned in the above paragraph would also trigger and prevent the 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.

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
0.00211 · 10.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2021-05-14T19:15Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 MAY 19:15Z
    Heap buffer overflow and undefined behavior in `FusedBatchNorm`
    cvelistv5