Description

TensorFlow vulnerable to segfault when opening multiframe gif

Impact

Integer overflow occurs when 2^31 <= num_frames * height * width * channels < 2^32, for example Full HD screencast of at least 346 frames.

import urllib.request
dat = urllib.request.urlopen('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/1c38ad9b78ffe06076745a1ee00cec42f39ff726/tensorflow/core/lib/gif/testdata/3g_multiframe.gif').read()
import tensorflow as tf
tf.io.decode_gif(dat)

Patches

We have patched the issue in GitHub commit 8dc723fcdd1a6127d6c970bd2ecb18b019a1a58d.

The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.12.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.11.1

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Attribution

This vulnerability has been reported by Andrei

Mitigation

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