CVE-2021-37657CWE-824

Reference binding to nullptr in `MatrixDiagV*` ops in TensorFlow

High · published August 12, 2021

CVSS v3.1
7.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions an attacker can cause undefined behavior via binding a reference to null pointer in all operations of type `tf.raw_ops.MatrixDiagV*`. The [implementation](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/84d053187cb80d975ef2b9684d4b61981bca0c41/tensorflow/core/kernels/linalg/matrix_diag_op.cc) has incomplete validation that the value of `k` is a valid tensor. We have check that this value is either a scalar or a vector, but there is no check for the number of elements. If this is an empty tensor, then code that accesses the first element of the tensor is wrong. We have patched the issue in GitHub commit f2a673bd34f0d64b8e40a551ac78989d16daad09. 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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00167 · 5.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-824 · Access of Uninitialized Pointer
Published
2021-08-12T20:50Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 AUG 20:50Z
    Reference binding to nullptr in `MatrixDiagV*` ops in TensorFlow
    cvelistv5