CVE-2021-29541: TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. An attacker can trigger a der…
- Occurred
- May 14, 2021
- Published
- May 14, 2021
- Source
- NVD CVE
Summary
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.
Tags
- CVE
- CVE-2021-29541
- cvss:LOW
Classification
Rationale: CVE in TensorFlow ML platform causing null pointer dereference, a technical failure in ML infrastructure.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8