CVE-2021-41206

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

Description

TensorFlow is an open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions several TensorFlow operations are missing validation for the shapes of the tensor arguments involved in the call. Depending on the API, this can result in undefined behavior and segfault or `CHECK`-fail related crashes but in some scenarios writes and reads from heap populated arrays are also possible. We have discovered these issues internally via tooling while working on improving/testing GPU op determinism. As such, we don't have reproducers and there will be multiple fixes for these issues. These fixes will be included in TensorFlow 2.7.0. We will also cherrypick these commits 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

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Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-41206

OS impact

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

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<4dddb2fd0b01cdd196101afbba6518658a2c9e07||>=2.6.0,<2.6.168422b215e618df5ad375bcdc6d2052e9fd3080a
python PyPItensorflow-gpu<4dddb2fd0b01cdd196101afbba6518658a2c9e07||>=2.6.0,<2.6.168422b215e618df5ad375bcdc6d2052e9fd3080a
python PyPItensorflow<4dddb2fd0b01cdd196101afbba6518658a2c9e07||>=2.6.0,<2.6.168422b215e618df5ad375bcdc6d2052e9fd3080a

References

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