CVE-2021-41227 (GCVE-0-2021-41227)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-11-05 22:30 – Updated: 2024-08-04 03:08
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Title
Arbitrary memory read in `ImmutableConst`
Summary
TensorFlow is an open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions the `ImmutableConst` operation in TensorFlow can be tricked into reading arbitrary memory contents. This is because the `tstring` TensorFlow string class has a special case for memory mapped strings but the operation itself does not offer any support for this datatype. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.7.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.6.1, TensorFlow 2.5.2, and TensorFlow 2.4.4, as these are also affected and still in supported range.
Severity
6.6 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
CWE
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7648 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
tensorflow tensorflow Affected: >= 2.6.0, < 2.6.1
Affected: >= 2.5.0, < 2.5.2
Affected: < 2.4.4
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