GHSA-3qxp-qjq7-w4hf

Описание

Impact

An attacker can trigger a CHECK fail in PNG encoding by providing an empty input tensor as the pixel data:

This is because the implementation only validates that the total number of pixels in the image does not overflow. Thus, an attacker can send an empty matrix for encoding. However, if the tensor is empty, then the associated buffer is nullptr. Hence, when calling png::WriteImageToBuffer, the first argument (i.e., image.flat<T>().data()) is NULL. This then triggers the CHECK_NOTNULL in the first line of png::WriteImageToBuffer.

Since image is null, this results in abort being called after printing the stacktrace. Effectively, this allows an attacker to mount a denial of service attack.

Patches

We have patched the issue in GitHub commit 26eb323554ffccd173e8a79a8c05c15b685ae4d1.

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.

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Attribution

This vulnerability has been reported by Yakun Zhang and Ying Wang of Baidu X-Team.