Medium
Security advisory
TensorFlow before 1.7.0 has an integer overflow that causes an out-of-bounds read, possibly causing disclosure of the contents of process memory. This occurs in the DecodeBmp feature of the BMP decoder in core/kernels/decode_bmp_op.cc.
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- Affected versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-21233
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:38 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
TensorFlow before 1.7.0 has an integer overflow that causes an out-of-bounds read, possibly causing disclosure of the contents of process memory. This occurs in the DecodeBmp feature of the BMP decoder in core/kernels/decode_bmp_op.cc.
osv:CVE-2018-21233
Complete source record
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