CVE-2020-26268

critical
Published 2020-12-10 · Modified 2023-12-06
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CVSS v2
VIR risk
9.5

Description

In affected versions of TensorFlow the tf.raw_ops.ImmutableConst operation returns a constant tensor created from a memory mapped file which is assumed immutable. However, if the type of the tensor is not an integral type, the operation crashes the Python interpreter as it tries to write to the memory area. If the file is too small, TensorFlow properly returns an error as the memory area has fewer bytes than what is needed for the tensor it creates. However, as soon as there are enough bytes, the above snippet causes a segmentation fault. This is because the allocator used to return the buffer data is not marked as returning an opaque handle since the needed virtual method is not overridden. This is fixed in versions 1.15.5, 2.0.4, 2.1.3, 2.2.2, 2.3.2, and 2.4.0.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-26268

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202012-22

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2.4.0-1
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPItensorflow<1.15.51.15.5
python PyPItensorflow>=2.0.0,<2.0.42.0.4
python PyPItensorflow>=2.1.0,<2.1.32.1.3
python PyPItensorflow>=2.2.0,<2.2.22.2.2
python PyPItensorflow>=2.3.0,<2.3.22.3.2
python PyPItensorflow-cpu<1.15.51.15.5
python PyPItensorflow-cpu>=2.0.0,<2.0.42.0.4
python PyPItensorflow-cpu>=2.1.0,<2.1.32.1.3
python PyPItensorflow-cpu>=2.2.0,<2.2.22.2.2
python PyPItensorflow-cpu>=2.3.0,<2.3.22.3.2
python PyPItensorflow-gpu<1.15.51.15.5
python PyPItensorflow-gpu>=2.0.0,<2.0.42.0.4
python PyPItensorflow-gpu>=2.1.0,<2.1.32.1.3
python PyPItensorflow-gpu>=2.2.0,<2.2.22.2.2
python PyPItensorflow-gpu>=2.3.0,<2.3.22.3.2
python PyPItensorflow-cpu<c1e1fc899ad5f8c725dcbb6470069890b5060bc7||>=2.3.0,<2.3.2c1e1fc899ad5f8c725dcbb6470069890b5060bc7
python PyPItensorflow<c1e1fc899ad5f8c725dcbb6470069890b5060bc7||>=2.3.0,<2.3.2c1e1fc899ad5f8c725dcbb6470069890b5060bc7
python PyPItensorflow-gpu<c1e1fc899ad5f8c725dcbb6470069890b5060bc7||>=2.3.0,<2.3.2c1e1fc899ad5f8c725dcbb6470069890b5060bc7

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.