Vulnerability Details CVE-2021-29514
TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. If the `splits` argument of `RaggedBincount` does not specify a valid `SparseTensor`(https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/sparse/SparseTensor), then an attacker can trigger a heap buffer overflow. This will cause a read from outside the bounds of the `splits` tensor buffer in the implementation of the `RaggedBincount` op(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/8b677d79167799f71c42fd3fa074476e0295413a/tensorflow/core/kernels/bincount_op.cc#L430-L446). Before the `for` loop, `batch_idx` is set to 0. The attacker sets `splits(0)` to be 7, hence the `while` loop does not execute and `batch_idx` remains 0. This then results in writing to `out(-1, bin)`, which is before the heap allocated buffer for the output tensor. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.5.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.4.2 and TensorFlow 2.3.3, as these are also affected.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 2.9%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 2.5
CVSS v2 Score 4.6
Products affected by CVE-2021-29514
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cpe:2.3:a:google:tensorflow:2.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:google:tensorflow:2.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:google:tensorflow:2.3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:google:tensorflow:2.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:google:tensorflow:2.4.1