CVE-2021-41197 Crashes due to overflow and `CHECK`-fail in ops with large tensor shapes

2021-11-0519:55:36

CWE-190

GitHub_M

www.cve.org

5.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

41.2%

JSON

TensorFlow is an open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions TensorFlow allows tensor to have a large number of dimensions and each dimension can be as large as desired. However, the total number of elements in a tensor must fit within an int64_t. If an overflow occurs, MultiplyWithoutOverflow would return a negative result. In the majority of TensorFlow codebase this then results in a CHECK-failure. Newer constructs exist which return a Status instead of crashing the binary. This is similar to CVE-2021-29584. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.7.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.6.1, TensorFlow 2.5.2, and TensorFlow 2.4.4, as these are also affected and still in supported range.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "tensorflow",
    "vendor": "tensorflow",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": ">= 2.6.0, < 2.6.1"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": ">= 2.5.0, < 2.5.2"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "< 2.4.4"
      }
    ]
  }
]