CVE-2020-15192 (published 2020-09-25T19:15Z)

In Tensorflow before versions 2.2.1 and 2.3.1, if a user passes a list of strings to `dlpack.to_dlpack` there is a memory leak following an expected validation failure. The issue occurs because the `status` argument during validation failures is not properly checked. Since each of the above methods can return an error status, the `status` value must be checked before continuing. The issue is patched in commit 22e07fb204386768e5bcbea563641ea11f96ceb8 and is released in TensorFlow versions 2.2.1, or 2.3.1.

Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v2 base score: 4.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
CVSS v3 base score: 4.3, MEDIUM (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-20
cwe_name: Improper Input Validation
description: The product receives input or data, but it does
        not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the
        properties that are required to process the data safely and
        correctly.
extended_description: 
	   Input validation is a frequently-used technique
	   for checking potentially dangerous inputs in order to
	   ensure that the inputs are safe for processing within the
	   code, or when communicating with other components.  When
	   software does not validate input properly, an attacker is
	   able to craft the input in a form that is not expected by
	   the rest of the application. This will lead to parts of the
	   system receiving unintended input, which may result in
	   altered control flow, arbitrary control of a resource, or
	   arbitrary code execution.
	   Input validation is not the only technique for
	   processing input, however.  Other techniques attempt to
	   transform potentially-dangerous input into something safe, such
	   as filtering (CWE-790) - which attempts to remove dangerous
	   inputs - or encoding/escaping (CWE-116), which attempts to
	   ensure that the input is not misinterpreted when it is included
	   in output to another component. Other techniques exist as well
	   (see CWE-138 for more examples.)
	   Input validation can be applied to:
	   
	     raw data - strings, numbers, parameters, file contents, etc.
	     metadata - information about the raw data, such as headers or size
	   
	   Data can be simple or structured.  Structured data
	   can be composed of many nested layers, composed of
	   combinations of metadata and raw data, with other simple or
	   structured data.
	   Many properties of raw data or metadata may need
	   to be validated upon entry into the code, such
	   as:
	   
	     specified quantities such as size, length, frequency, price, rate, number of operations, time, etc.
	     implied or derived quantities, such as the actual size of a file instead of a specified size
	     indexes, offsets, or positions into more complex data structures
	     symbolic keys or other elements into hash tables, associative arrays, etc.
	     well-formedness, i.e. syntactic correctness - compliance with expected syntax 
	     lexical token correctness - compliance with rules for what is treated as a token
	     specified or derived type - the actual type of the input (or what the input appears to be)
	     consistency - between individual data elements, between raw data and metadata, between references, etc.
	     conformance to domain-specific rules, e.g. business logic 
	     equivalence - ensuring that equivalent inputs are treated the same
	     authenticity, ownership, or other attestations about the input, e.g. a cryptographic signature to prove the source of the data
	   
	   Implied or derived properties of data must often
	   be calculated or inferred by the code itself.  Errors in
	   deriving properties may be considered a contributing factor
	   to improper input validation.
	   
	   Note that "input validation" has very different
	   meanings to different people, or within different
	   classification schemes.  Caution must be used when
	   referencing this CWE entry or mapping to it.  For example,
	   some weaknesses might involve inadvertently giving control
	   to an attacker over an input when they should not be able
	   to provide an input at all, but sometimes this is referred
	   to as input validation.
	   Finally, it is important to emphasize that the
	   distinctions between input validation and output escaping
	   are often blurred, and developers must be careful to
	   understand the difference, including how input validation
	   is not always sufficient to prevent vulnerabilities,
	   especially when less stringent data types must be
	   supported, such as free-form text. Consider a SQL injection
	   scenario in which a person's last name is inserted into a
	   query. The name "O'Reilly" would likely pass the validation
	   step since it is a common last name in the English
	   language. However, this valid name cannot be directly
	   inserted into the database because it contains the "'"
	   apostrophe character, which would need to be escaped or
	   otherwise transformed. In this case, removing the
	   apostrophe might reduce the risk of SQL injection, but it
	   would produce incorrect behavior because the wrong name
	   would be recorded.
       
         

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow
author: Mihai Maruseac
author_date: 2020-09-18 19:14:17-07:00
msg: Fix multiple vulnerabilities in `tf.experimental.dlpack.to_dlpack`.

We have a use after free caused by memory coruption, a segmentation fault caused by memory corruption, several memory leaks and an undefined behavior when taking the reference of a nullptr.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 332568894
Change-Id: Ife0fc05e103b35325094ae5d822ee5fdea764572
repository: repo_url: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow
repo_name: tensorflow/tensorflow
description: An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone
repo_language: C++
owner: tensorflow
file_changes: filename: dlpack.cc
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -249,21 +249,36 @@ void TFE_CallDLManagedTensorDeleter(void* dlm_ptr) {
 }
 
 void* TFE_HandleToDLPack(TFE_TensorHandle* h, TF_Status* status) {
+  auto tf_dlm_context = GetDlContext(h, status);
+  if (!status->status.ok()) {
+    return nullptr;
+  }
+
+  auto* tf_dlm_data = TFE_TensorHandleDevicePointer(h, status);
+  if (!status->status.ok()) {
+    return nullptr;
+  }
+
   const Tensor* tensor = GetTensorFromHandle(h, status);
   TF_DataType data_type = static_cast<TF_DataType>(tensor->dtype());
-  TensorReference tensor_ref(*tensor);  // This will call buf_->Ref()
 
+  auto tf_dlm_type = GetDlDataType(data_type, status);
+  if (!status->status.ok()) {
+    return nullptr;
+  }
+
+  TensorReference tensor_ref(*tensor);  // This will call buf_->Ref()
   auto* tf_dlm_tensor_ctx = new TfDlManagedTensorCtx(tensor_ref);
   tf_dlm_tensor_ctx->reference = tensor_ref;
 
   DLManagedTensor* dlm_tensor = &tf_dlm_tensor_ctx->tensor;
   dlm_tensor->manager_ctx = tf_dlm_tensor_ctx;
   dlm_tensor->deleter = &DLManagedTensorDeleter;
-  dlm_tensor->dl_tensor.ctx = GetDlContext(h, status);
+  dlm_tensor->dl_tensor.ctx = tf_dlm_context;
   int ndim = tensor->dims();
   dlm_tensor->dl_tensor.ndim = ndim;
-  dlm_tensor->dl_tensor.data = TFE_TensorHandleDevicePointer(h, status);
-  dlm_tensor->dl_tensor.dtype = GetDlDataType(data_type, status);
+  dlm_tensor->dl_tensor.data = tf_dlm_data;
+  dlm_tensor->dl_tensor.dtype = tf_dlm_type;
 
   std::vector<int64_t>* shape_arr = &tf_dlm_tensor_ctx->shape;
   std::vector<int64_t>* stride_arr = &tf_dlm_tensor_ctx->strides;
@@ -276,13 +291,14 @@ void* TFE_HandleToDLPack(TFE_TensorHandle* h, TF_Status* status) {
     (*stride_arr)[i] = (*shape_arr)[i + 1] * (*stride_arr)[i + 1];
   }
 
-  dlm_tensor->dl_tensor.shape = &(*shape_arr)[0];
+  dlm_tensor->dl_tensor.shape = shape_arr->data();
   // There are two ways to represent compact row-major data
   // 1) nullptr indicates tensor is compact and row-majored.
   // 2) fill in the strides array as the real case for compact row-major data.
   // Here we choose option 2, since some frameworks didn't handle the strides
   // argument properly.
-  dlm_tensor->dl_tensor.strides = &(*stride_arr)[0];
+  dlm_tensor->dl_tensor.strides = stride_arr->data();
+
   dlm_tensor->dl_tensor.byte_offset =
       0;  // TF doesn't handle the strides and byte_offsets here
   return static_cast<void*>(dlm_tensor);

programming_language: C++
filename: BUILD
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ cuda_py_test(
     name = "dlpack_test",
     srcs = ["dlpack_test.py"],
     srcs_version = "PY2AND3",
-    tags = ["noasan"],  # TODO(b/159774807)
     deps = [
         ":dlpack",
         "//tensorflow/python/eager:test",

programming_language: R
filename: dlpack_test.py
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -20,9 +20,11 @@ from __future__ import print_function
 from absl.testing import parameterized
 import numpy as np
 
+
 from tensorflow.python.dlpack import dlpack
 from tensorflow.python.framework import constant_op
 from tensorflow.python.framework import dtypes
+from tensorflow.python.framework import errors
 from tensorflow.python.framework import ops
 from tensorflow.python.platform import test
 from tensorflow.python.ops import array_ops
@@ -105,6 +107,12 @@ class DLPackTest(parameterized.TestCase, test.TestCase):
     self.assertRaisesRegex(Exception, ".* is not supported by dlpack",
                            UnsupportedComplex64)
 
+  def testMustPassTensorArgumentToDLPack(self):
+    with self.assertRaisesRegex(
+        errors.InvalidArgumentError,
+        "The argument to `to_dlpack` must be a TF tensor, not Python object"):
+      dlpack.to_dlpack([1])
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
   ops.enable_eager_execution()

programming_language: Python
filename: tfe_wrapper.cc
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -1358,9 +1358,16 @@ PYBIND11_MODULE(_pywrap_tfe, m) {
   // DLPack functions
   m.def("TFE_ToDlpackCapsule", [](py::handle& o) {
     PyObject* eager_tensor_pyobject_ptr = o.ptr();
-    TFE_TensorHandle* thandle = EagerTensor_Handle(eager_tensor_pyobject_ptr);
     tensorflow::Safe_TF_StatusPtr status =
         tensorflow::make_safe(TF_NewStatus());
+
+    if (!EagerTensor_CheckExact(eager_tensor_pyobject_ptr)) {
+      status->status = tensorflow::errors::InvalidArgument(
+          "The argument to `to_dlpack` must be a TF tensor, not Python object");
+      tensorflow::MaybeRaiseRegisteredFromTFStatus(status.get());
+    }
+
+    TFE_TensorHandle* thandle = EagerTensor_Handle(eager_tensor_pyobject_ptr);
     void* dlm_ptr = tensorflow::TFE_HandleToDLPack(thandle, status.get());
     tensorflow::MaybeRaiseRegisteredFromTFStatus(status.get());
 

programming_language: C++