CVE-2021-41216

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 the shape inference function for `Transpose` is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow. This occurs whenever `perm` contains negative elements. The shape inference function does not validate that the indices in `perm` are all valid. 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-2021-41216

OS impact

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

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPItensorflow-cpu>=2.6.0,<2.6.12.6.1
python PyPItensorflow<2.4.42.4.4
python PyPItensorflow-cpu>=2.5.0,<2.5.22.5.2
python PyPItensorflow>=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>=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<c79ba87153ee343401dbe9d1954d7f79e521eb14||>=2.7.0rc0,<2.7.0c79ba87153ee343401dbe9d1954d7f79e521eb14
python PyPItensorflow-cpu<c79ba87153ee343401dbe9d1954d7f79e521eb14||>=2.7.0rc0,<2.7.0c79ba87153ee343401dbe9d1954d7f79e521eb14
python PyPItensorflow-gpu<c79ba87153ee343401dbe9d1954d7f79e521eb14||>=2.7.0rc0,<2.7.0c79ba87153ee343401dbe9d1954d7f79e521eb14

References

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