Null pointer dereference in TensorFlow

Overview

Impact

The implementation of QuantizedMaxPool has an undefined behavior where user controlled inputs can trigger a reference binding to null pointer.

import tensorflow as tf

tf.raw_ops.QuantizedMaxPool(
    input = tf.constant([[[[4]]]], dtype=tf.quint8),
    min_input = [],
    max_input = [1],
    ksize = [1, 1, 1, 1],
    strides = [1, 1, 1, 1],
    padding = "SAME", name=None
)

Patches

We have patched the issue in GitHub commit 53b0dd6dc5957652f35964af16b892ec9af4a559.

The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.8.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.7.1, TensorFlow 2.6.3, and TensorFlow 2.5.3, as these are also affected and still in supported range.

For more information

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Attribution

This vulnerability has been reported by Faysal Hossain Shezan from University of Virginia.

Affected packages

• tensorflow < 2.5.3
• tensorflow >= 2.6.0, < 2.6.3
• tensorflow >= 2.7.0, < 2.7.1
• tensorflow-cpu < 2.5.3
• tensorflow-cpu >= 2.6.0, < 2.6.3
• tensorflow-cpu >= 2.7.0, < 2.7.1
• tensorflow-gpu < 2.5.3
• tensorflow-gpu >= 2.6.0, < 2.6.3
• tensorflow-gpu >= 2.7.0, < 2.7.1

Remediation

Upgrade to a patched release:

• tensorflow 2.5.3
• tensorflow 2.6.3
• tensorflow 2.7.1
• tensorflow-cpu 2.5.3
• tensorflow-cpu 2.6.3
• tensorflow-cpu 2.7.1
• tensorflow-gpu 2.5.3
• tensorflow-gpu 2.6.3
• tensorflow-gpu 2.7.1