Integer overflows in Tensorflow

Overview

Impact

The implementations of Sparse*Cwise* ops are vulnerable to integer overflows. These can be used to trigger large allocations (so, OOM based denial of service) or CHECK-fails when building new TensorShape objects (so, assert failures based denial of service):

import tensorflow as tf
import numpy as np

tf.raw_ops.SparseDenseCwiseDiv(
    sp_indices=np.array([[9]]),
    sp_values=np.array([5]),
    sp_shape=np.array([92233720368., 92233720368]),
    dense=np.array([4]))

We are missing some validation on the shapes of the input tensors as well as directly constructing a large TensorShape with user-provided dimensions. The latter is an instance of TFSA-2021-198 (CVE-2021-41197) and is easily fixed by replacing a call to TensorShape constructor with a call to BuildTensorShape static helper factory.

Patches

We have patched the issue in GitHub commits 1b54cadd19391b60b6fcccd8d076426f7221d5e8 and e952a89b7026b98fe8cbe626514a93ed68b7c510.

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