DEBIAN-CVE-2020-37038

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-37038
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-37038.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-37038
Upstream
  • CVE-2020-37038
Published
2026-01-30T23:16:09.237Z
Modified
2026-01-31T15:30:03.840843Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Code Blocks 20.03 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by manipulating input in the FSymbols search field. Attackers can paste a large payload of 5000 repeated characters into the search field to trigger an application crash.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / codeblocks

Package

Name
codeblocks
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/codeblocks?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

20.*
20.03-3
20.03-3.1
20.03+svn13046-0.1
20.03+svn13046-0.2
20.03+svn13046-0.3~exp1
20.03+svn13046-0.3
20.03+svn13046-0.4
25.*
25.03+dfsg-1
25.03+dfsg-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-37038.json"

Debian:12 / codeblocks

Package

Name
codeblocks
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/codeblocks?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

20.*
20.03+svn13046-0.1
20.03+svn13046-0.2
20.03+svn13046-0.3~exp1
20.03+svn13046-0.3
20.03+svn13046-0.4
25.*
25.03+dfsg-1
25.03+dfsg-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-37038.json"

Debian:13 / codeblocks

Package

Name
codeblocks
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/codeblocks?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

25.*
25.03+dfsg-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-37038.json"

Debian:14 / codeblocks

Package

Name
codeblocks
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/codeblocks?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

25.*
25.03+dfsg-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-37038.json"