Reference binding to nullptr in map operations

Overview

Impact

An attacker can cause undefined behavior via binding a reference to null pointer in tf.raw_ops.Map* and tf.raw_ops.OrderedMap* operations:

import tensorflow as tf
  
tf.raw_ops.MapPeek(
  key=tf.constant([8],dtype=tf.int64),
  indices=[],
  dtypes=[tf.int32],
  capacity=8,
  memory_limit=128)

The implementation has a check in place to ensure that indices is in ascending order, but does not check that indices is not empty.

Patches

We have patched the issue in GitHub commit 532f5c5a547126c634fefd43bbad1dc6417678ac.

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.

For more information

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Attribution

This vulnerability has been reported by members of the Aivul Team from Qihoo 360.

Affected packages

• tensorflow < 2.3.4
• tensorflow >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.3
• tensorflow >= 2.5.0, < 2.5.1
• tensorflow-cpu < 2.3.4
• tensorflow-cpu >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.3
• tensorflow-cpu >= 2.5.0, < 2.5.1
• tensorflow-gpu < 2.3.4
• tensorflow-gpu >= 2.4.0, < 2.4.3
• tensorflow-gpu >= 2.5.0, < 2.5.1

Remediation

Upgrade to a patched release:

• tensorflow 2.3.4
• tensorflow 2.4.3
• tensorflow 2.5.1
• tensorflow-cpu 2.3.4
• tensorflow-cpu 2.4.3
• tensorflow-cpu 2.5.1
• tensorflow-gpu 2.3.4
• tensorflow-gpu 2.4.3
• tensorflow-gpu 2.5.1