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High severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 12, 2021· Updated Aug 4, 2024

Use after free in boosted trees creation in TensorFlow

CVE-2021-37652

Description

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions the implementation for tf.raw_ops.BoostedTreesCreateEnsemble can result in a use after free error if an attacker supplies specially crafted arguments. The implementation uses a reference counted resource and decrements the refcount if the initialization fails, as it should. However, when the code was written, the resource was represented as a naked pointer but later refactoring has changed it to be a smart pointer. Thus, when the pointer leaves the scope, a subsequent free-ing of the resource occurs, but this fails to take into account that the refcount has already reached 0, thus the resource has been already freed. During this double-free process, members of the resource object are accessed for cleanup but they are invalid as the entire resource has been freed. We have patched the issue in GitHub commit 5ecec9c6fbdbc6be03295685190a45e7eee726ab. 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.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
tensorflowPyPI
< 2.3.42.3.4
tensorflowPyPI
>= 2.4.0, < 2.4.32.4.3
tensorflowPyPI
>= 2.5.0, < 2.5.12.5.1
tensorflow-cpuPyPI
< 2.3.42.3.4
tensorflow-cpuPyPI
>= 2.4.0, < 2.4.32.4.3
tensorflow-cpuPyPI
>= 2.5.0, < 2.5.12.5.1
tensorflow-gpuPyPI
< 2.3.42.3.4
tensorflow-gpuPyPI
>= 2.4.0, < 2.4.32.4.3
tensorflow-gpuPyPI
>= 2.5.0, < 2.5.12.5.1

Affected products

1

Patches

1
5ecec9c6fbdb

Prevent use after free.

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflowMihai MaruseacJul 31, 2021via ghsa
1 file changed · +1 0
  • tensorflow/core/kernels/boosted_trees/resource_ops.cc+1 0 modified
    @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ class BoostedTreesCreateEnsembleOp : public OpKernel {
         if (!result->InitFromSerialized(
                 tree_ensemble_serialized_t->scalar<tstring>()(), stamp_token)) {
           result->Unref();
    +      result.release();  // Needed due to the `->Unref` above, to prevent UAF
           OP_REQUIRES(
               context, false,
               errors::InvalidArgument("Unable to parse tree ensemble proto."));
    

Vulnerability mechanics

Synthesis attempt was rejected by the grounding validator. Re-run pending.

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