CVE-2021-29536

critical
Published 2021-05-21 · Modified 2023-12-06
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v2
VIR risk
9.5

Description

TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. An attacker can cause a heap buffer overflow in `QuantizedReshape` by passing in invalid thresholds for the quantization. This is because the implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/a324ac84e573fba362a5e53d4e74d5de6729933e/tensorflow/core/kernels/quantized_reshape_op.cc#L38-L55) assumes that the 2 arguments are always valid scalars and tries to access the numeric value directly. However, if any of these tensors is empty, then `.flat<T>()` is an empty buffer and accessing the element at position 0 results in overflow. 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.

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-2021-29536

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2.5.0-1
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPItensorflow<2.1.42.1.4
python PyPItensorflow-cpu<2.1.42.1.4
python PyPItensorflow>=2.3.0,<2.3.32.3.3
python PyPItensorflow-cpu>=2.2.0,<2.2.32.2.3
python PyPItensorflow-gpu<2.1.42.1.4
python PyPItensorflow>=2.2.0,<2.2.32.2.3
python PyPItensorflow-cpu>=2.3.0,<2.3.32.3.3
python PyPItensorflow-gpu>=2.2.0,<2.2.32.2.3
python PyPItensorflow-gpu>=2.4.0,<2.4.22.4.2
python PyPItensorflow>=2.4.0,<2.4.22.4.2
python PyPItensorflow-cpu>=2.4.0,<2.4.22.4.2
python PyPItensorflow-gpu>=2.3.0,<2.3.32.3.3
python PyPItensorflow<a324ac84e573fba362a5e53d4e74d5de6729933e||>=2.4.0,<2.4.3a324ac84e573fba362a5e53d4e74d5de6729933e
python PyPItensorflow-gpu<a324ac84e573fba362a5e53d4e74d5de6729933e||>=2.4.0,<2.4.3a324ac84e573fba362a5e53d4e74d5de6729933e
python PyPItensorflow-cpu<a324ac84e573fba362a5e53d4e74d5de6729933e||>=2.4.0,<2.4.3a324ac84e573fba362a5e53d4e74d5de6729933e

References

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