IBM System X/BladeCenter SMI denial of service [CVE-2019-6155]

A vulnerability was found in IBM System X and BladeCenter. It has been classified as problematic. This affects code of the component SMI Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

A potential vulnerability was found in an SMI handler in various BIOS versions of certain legacy IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter systems that could lead to denial of service.

The weakness was released 04/22/2019. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2019-6155 since 01/11/2019. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/23/2019).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 3.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 3.5

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Class: Denial of service (CWE-404)
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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0-Day Time: ?01/11/2019 CVE assigned
04/22/2019 +101 days Advisory disclosed
04/23/2019 +1 days VulDB entry created
04/23/2019 +0 days VulDB last updateCVE: CVE-2019-6155 (?)Created: 04/23/2019 09:09 AM
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