From c2875c44b907578da0830057de9d2ef40c68ed48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hussein Al-Rubaye <hualruba@microsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 14:08:44 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix GatherCopyData Integer Truncation Leading to Heap
 Out-of-Bounds Read/Write  (#27444) This pull request improves the robustness
 and correctness of the CPU implementation of the Gather operator in ONNX
 Runtime. The key changes focus on preventing integer overflow issues in
 parallel processing and output shape calculations, as well as enhancing test
 coverage to verify these safeguards.

Enhancements to overflow handling and parallel processing:

* Changed the lambda function in `GatherCopyData` to use `ptrdiff_t`
instead of `int64_t` for the index, and explicitly cast batch and i
variables, ensuring safer arithmetic for large tensor sizes.
* Updated the parallel loop in `GatherCopyData` to iterate using
`ptrdiff_t` indices, preventing potential overflow when processing large
tensors.

Testing improvements:

* Added a new unit test `Gather_overflow_check` in `gather_op_test.cc`
to verify that the Gather operator correctly handles very large output
shapes without overflowing, specifically testing dimensions that exceed
the 32-bit integer limit.
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---
 .../core/providers/cpu/tensor/gather.cc       | 20 ++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/onnxruntime/core/providers/cpu/tensor/gather.cc b/onnxruntime/core/providers/cpu/tensor/gather.cc
index 38a16ee83c86b..e36f2c7f89183 100644
--- a/onnxruntime/core/providers/cpu/tensor/gather.cc
+++ b/onnxruntime/core/providers/cpu/tensor/gather.cc
@@ -102,9 +102,9 @@ Status GatherCopyData(const Tensor* indices_tensor, const uint8_t* src_base, uin
     }
   }
 
-  auto lambda = [&](int64_t index) {
-    int64_t batch = index / N;
-    int64_t i = index % N;
+  auto lambda = [&](ptrdiff_t index) {
+    const int64_t batch = static_cast<int64_t>(index / N);
+    const int64_t i = static_cast<int64_t>(index % N);
 
     const int64_t src_offset_batch = batch * data_batch_bytes;
     const int64_t dst_offset_batch = batch * gathered_batch_bytes;
@@ -120,12 +120,14 @@ Status GatherCopyData(const Tensor* indices_tensor, const uint8_t* src_base, uin
       memcpy(dst_base + dst_offset, src_base + src_offset, narrow<size_t>(block_size));
     }
   };
-  concurrency::ThreadPool::TryParallelFor(tp, SafeInt<ptrdiff_t>(M) * N, static_cast<double>(block_size),
-                                          [&lambda](ptrdiff_t first, ptrdiff_t last) {
-                                            for (int index = static_cast<int>(first), end = static_cast<int>(last); index < end; ++index) {
-                                              lambda(index);
-                                            }
-                                          });
+
+  concurrency::ThreadPool::TryParallelFor(
+      tp, SafeInt<ptrdiff_t>(M) * N, static_cast<double>(block_size),
+      [&lambda](ptrdiff_t first, ptrdiff_t last) {
+        for (ptrdiff_t index = first; index < last; ++index) {
+          lambda(index);
+        }
+      });
 
   return Status::OK();
 }