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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLWM1NDUtYzRmOS1yZjZ2

Heap OOB in TFLite

Impact

TFLite's expand_dims.cc contains a vulnerability which allows reading one element outside of bounds of heap allocated data:

  if (axis < 0) { 
    axis = input_dims.size + 1 + axis;
  }   
  TF_LITE_ENSURE(context, axis <= input_dims.size);

  TfLiteIntArray* output_dims = TfLiteIntArrayCreate(input_dims.size + 1);
  for (int i = 0; i < output_dims->size; ++i) {
    if (i < axis) {
      output_dims->data[i] = input_dims.data[i];
    } else if (i == axis) {
      output_dims->data[i] = 1;
    } else {
      output_dims->data[i] = input_dims.data[i - 1];
    }
  }

If axis is a large negative value (e.g., -100000), then after the first if it would still be negative. The check following the if statement will pass and the for loop would read one element before the start of input_dims.data (when i = 0).

Patches

We have patched the issue in GitHub commit d94ffe08a65400f898241c0374e9edc6fa8ed257.

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 Yakun Zhang of Baidu Security.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c545-c4f9-rf6v
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Moderate
Classification: General
Published: over 2 years ago
Updated: about 1 year ago

CVSS Score: 5.5
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Identifiers: GHSA-c545-c4f9-rf6v, CVE-2021-37685
References:

• https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/security/advisories/GHSA-c545-c4f9-rf6v
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-37685
• https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/d94ffe08a65400f898241c0374e9edc6fa8ed257
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c545-c4f9-rf6v

Repository: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow
Blast Radius: 26.8

Affected Packages