CVE-2021-29541
Null pointer dereference in `StringNGrams`
Description
TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. An attacker can trigger a dereference of a null pointer in `tf.raw_ops.StringNGrams`. This is because the implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/1cdd4da14282210cc759e468d9781741ac7d01bf/tensorflow/core/kernels/string_ngrams_op.cc#L67-L74) does not fully validate the `data_splits` argument. This would result in `ngrams_data`(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/1cdd4da14282210cc759e468d9781741ac7d01bf/tensorflow/core/kernels/string_ngrams_op.cc#L106-L110) to be a null pointer when the output would be computed to have 0 or negative size. Later writes to the output tensor would then cause a null pointer dereference. 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.
How to fix CVE-2021-29541
To remediate CVE-2021-29541, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 2.1.4 or later
- —upgrade to 2.1.4 or later
- —upgrade to ba424dd8f16f7110eea526a8086f1a155f14f22b or later
- —upgrade to ba424dd8f16f7110eea526a8086f1a155f14f22b or later
- —upgrade to 2.1.4 or later
- —upgrade to ba424dd8f16f7110eea526a8086f1a155f14f22b or later
- —upgrade to 2.1.4 or later
Is CVE-2021-29541 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (7)
- from 0, < 2.1.4, >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3, >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3, >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2
- from 0, < 2.1.4
- from 0, < ba424dd8f16f7110eea526a8086f1a155f14f22b | from 0, < 2.1.4, >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3, >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3, >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2
- from 0, < ba424dd8f16f7110eea526a8086f1a155f14f22b | from 0, < 2.1.4, >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3, >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3, >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2
- from 0, < 2.1.4
- from 0, < ba424dd8f16f7110eea526a8086f1a155f14f22b | from 0, < 2.1.4, >= 2.2.0, < 2.2.3, >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.3, >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.2
- from 0, < 2.1.4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | LOW2.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |