3Com Switches - Undocumented Access Level.

Overview

Summary

Backdoor/undocumented 'access level' in current (and possibly previous) versions of 3Com's 'intelligent' and 'extended' switching software for LanPlex/Corebuilder switches.

Category

Exploit: A way of breaking into a system. An exploit takes advantage of a weakness in a system in order to hack it. Exploits are the root of the hacker culture. Hackers gain fame by discovering an exploit. Others gain fame by writing scripts for it. Legions of script-kiddies apply the exploit to millions of systems, whether it makes sense or not. Since people make the same mistakes over-and-over, exploits for very different systems start to look very much like each other. Most exploits can be classified under major categories: buffer overflow, directory climbing, defaults, Denial of Service.

Origins

Author

Eric Monti

Date of Origin

May, 1998

Detection and Removal

Manual Removal

Follow these steps to remove 3Com Switches - Undocumented Access Level. from your machine. Begin by backing up your registry and your system, and/or setting a Restore Point, to prevent trouble if you make a mistake.

3360Trojan 33_su.cexploitforLCglibcformatstringbug 37988hijack 3ComNMCTotalControlHubsVulnerabilities 3ComSecurityAdvisoryforCoreBuilderandSuperStackIICustomers 3ComSwitches-UndocumentedAccessLevel. 3XBackdoor 3amDarkness 3lprm.c 3man.c