CVE-2021-41197

high
Published 2021-11-10 · Modified 2023-12-06
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

TensorFlow is an open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions TensorFlow allows tensor to have a large number of dimensions and each dimension can be as large as desired. However, the total number of elements in a tensor must fit within an `int64_t`. If an overflow occurs, `MultiplyWithoutOverflow` would return a negative result. In the majority of TensorFlow codebase this then results in a `CHECK`-failure. Newer constructs exist which return a `Status` instead of crashing the binary. This is similar to CVE-2021-29584. 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.

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-2021-41197

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2.6.1-1
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPItensorflow>=2.6.0,<2.6.12.6.1
python PyPItensorflow>=2.5.0,<2.5.22.5.2
python PyPItensorflow<2.4.42.4.4
python PyPItensorflow-cpu>=2.6.0,<2.6.12.6.1
python PyPItensorflow-cpu>=2.5.0,<2.5.22.5.2
python PyPItensorflow-cpu<2.4.42.4.4
python PyPItensorflow-gpu>=2.6.0,<2.6.12.6.1
python PyPItensorflow-gpu>=2.5.0,<2.5.22.5.2
python PyPItensorflow-gpu<2.4.42.4.4
python PyPItensorflow-cpu<7c1692bd417eb4f9b33ead749a41166d6080af85||>=2.7.0rc0,<2.7.0a871989d7b6c18cdebf2fb4f0e5c5b62fbc19edf
python PyPItensorflow<7c1692bd417eb4f9b33ead749a41166d6080af85||>=2.7.0rc0,<2.7.0a871989d7b6c18cdebf2fb4f0e5c5b62fbc19edf
python PyPItensorflow-gpu<7c1692bd417eb4f9b33ead749a41166d6080af85||>=2.7.0rc0,<2.7.0a871989d7b6c18cdebf2fb4f0e5c5b62fbc19edf

References

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