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CRN.com places Metro Data, Inc. on the Pioneer 250 of CRN’s 2018 Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list!

Business News ( Hunt Valley, Maryland ) - Feb 20, 2018

February 20, 2018 - Metro Data, Inc. Recognized for Excellence in Managed IT ServicesMetro Data, Inc. received the following announcement from CRN.com: "On behalf of The Channel Company and CRN, I would like to congratulate you on Metro Data, Inc.’s placement on the Pioneer 250 of CRN’s 2018 Ma...

Exploits Discovered - Published CVE-2017-18188

Security News, Business News - Feb 14, 2018

Title: opentmpfiles root privilege escalation via recursive chownAuthor: Michael OrlitzkyFixedin:SummaryThe opentmpfiles program implements the tmpfiles.d specification for POSIX systems that do not run systemd. When processing a Z type entry, opentmpfiles calls chown recursively to change ownership...

Exploits Discovered - Published CVE-2017-18078

Security News, Business News - Jan 29, 2018

Title: systemd-tmpfiles root privilege escalation sans fs.protected_hardlinksAuthor: Michael OrlitzkyFixedin: commit 5579f85 , version 237SummaryBefore version 237, the systemd-tmpfiles program will change the permissions and ownership of hard links. If the administrator disables the fs.protected_ha...

Exploits Discovered - Published CVE-2017-18018

Security News, Business News - Jan 04, 2018

Title: GNU chown and chgrp privilege escalation via recursive dereferencesAuthor: Michael OrlitzkyFixedin:SummaryThe chown program in GNU coreutils is vulnerable to a race condition when using the POSIX -R -L options to follow symlinks recursively. In the presence of symlinks, the recursive director...

Metro Data, Inc. President interviewed by Fox45 TV, WBFF Baltimore.

Business News ( Hunt Valley, Maryland ) - Nov 30, 2017

Bert Orlitzky, President of Metro Data, Inc. was interviewed by reporter John Rydell of Fox45 TV, WBFF Baltimore and appeared on the evening newscast.The newscast topic covered the Anne Arundel County School system, which recently had their paychecks "hacked" by way of a sophisticated phishing...

Exploits Discovered - Published CVE-2017-16933

Security News, Business News - Nov 23, 2017

Title: Icinga2 root privilege escalation via init script and systemd serviceAuthor: Michael OrlitzkyFixedin:SummaryThe icinga2 init script (etc/initsystem/icinga2.init.d.cmake) and systemd service file (etc/initsystem/icinga2.service.cmake) allow the unprivileged $ICINGA2_USER to gain root privilege...

Exploits Discovered - Published CVE-2017-16882

Security News, Business News - Nov 18, 2017

Title: Icinga core root privilege escalation via insecure permissionsAuthor: Michael OrlitzkyFixedin: commits ad2eb58 and 161c621, version 1.14.2SummaryIcinga installs two sets of files with insecure permissions: after installation, the executables and the configuration files are all owned by the sa...

Exploits Discovered - Published CVE-2017-16834

Security News, Business News - Nov 15, 2017

Title: pnp4nagios root privilege escalation via insecure permissionsAuthor: Michael OrlitzkyFixedin: Commit 23c123fSummaryThe pnp4nagios build system installs two sets of files with insecure permissions. After installation, the executables and the configuration files are all owned by the same unpriv...

Exploits Discovered - Published CVE-2017-16659

Security News, Business News - Nov 07, 2017

Title: mail-filter/assp root privilege escalation by user-owned daemonAuthor: Michael OrlitzkyFixedin: noneSummaryAll versions of the Gentoo mail-filter/assp package allow the local unprivileged assp user to gain root by modifying the /usr/share/assp/assp.pl script, which is launched as root by its...

Exploits Discovered - Published CVE-2017-16638

Security News, Business News - Nov 06, 2017

Title: net-misc/vde root privilege escalation via OpenRC service scriptAuthor: Michael OrlitzkyFixedin: version 2.3.2-r4, commits 487449d and 26fdd48SummaryThe Gentoo net-misc/vde package before version 2.3.2-r4 may allow members of the qemu group to gain root by creating a hard link in a directory...

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