TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. The API of tf.raw_ops.SparseCross
allows combinations which would result in a CHECK
-failure and denial of service. This is because the implementation(https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/3d782b7d47b1bf2ed32bd4a246d6d6cadc4c903d/tensorflow/core/kernels/sparsecrossop.cc#L114-L116) is tricked to consider a tensor of type tstring
which in fact contains integral elements. Fixing the type confusion by preventing mixing DT_STRING
and DT_INT64
types solves this issue. The fix will be included in TensorFlow 2.5.0. We will also cherrypick this commit on TensorFlow 2.4.2, TensorFlow 2.3.3, TensorFlow 2.2.3 and TensorFlow 2.1.4, as these are also affected and still in supported range.