CVE-2021-41220 (GCVE-0-2021-41220)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-11-05 22:20 – Updated: 2024-08-04 03:08
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Title
Use after free in `CollectiveReduceV2`
Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
tensorflow tensorflow Affected: >= 2.6.0, < 2.6.1
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