CVE-2021-41220

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:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

TensorFlow is an open source platform for machine learning. In affected versions the async implementation of `CollectiveReduceV2` suffers from a memory leak and a use after free. This occurs due to the asynchronous computation and the fact that objects that have been `std::move()`d from are still accessed. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.7.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.6.1, as this version is the only one that is also affected.

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-2021-41220

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-cpu>=2.6.0,<2.6.12.6.1
python PyPItensorflow-gpu>=2.6.0,<2.6.12.6.1
python PyPItensorflow-cpu<ca38dab9d3ee66c5de06f11af9a4b1200da5ef75||>=2.7.0rc0,<2.7.0ca38dab9d3ee66c5de06f11af9a4b1200da5ef75
python PyPItensorflow<ca38dab9d3ee66c5de06f11af9a4b1200da5ef75||>=2.7.0rc0,<2.7.0ca38dab9d3ee66c5de06f11af9a4b1200da5ef75
python PyPItensorflow-gpu<ca38dab9d3ee66c5de06f11af9a4b1200da5ef75||>=2.7.0rc0,<2.7.0ca38dab9d3ee66c5de06f11af9a4b1200da5ef75

References

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