CVE-2021-37690CWE-416

Use after free and segfault in shape inference functions in TensorFlow

Medium · published August 12, 2021

CVSS v3.1
6.6
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions when running shape functions, some functions (such as `MutableHashTableShape`) produce extra output information in the form of a `ShapeAndType` struct. The shapes embedded in this struct are owned by an inference context that is cleaned up almost immediately; if the upstream code attempts to access this shape information, it can trigger a segfault. `ShapeRefiner` is mitigating this for normal output shapes by cloning them (and thus putting the newly created shape under ownership of an inference context that will not die), but we were not doing the same for shapes and types. This commit fixes that by doing similar logic on output shapes and types. We have patched the issue in GitHub commit ee119d4a498979525046fba1c3dd3f13a039fbb1. 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
6.6 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00163 · 5.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-416 · Use After Free
Published
2021-08-12T23:10Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 AUG 23:10Z
    Use after free and segfault in shape inference functions in TensorFlow
    cvelistv5