CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2019-6155 — Ibm Bladecenter Hs23 Firmware security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.8

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.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.8 (2.0)
Published
2019-04-22
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system

Affected products

  • ibm / bladecenter_hs23_firmware
  • ibm / system_x3530_m4_firmware
  • ibm / system_x3630_m4_firmware
  • ibm / system_x3650_m4_hd_firmware

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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