What network services pose a security threat in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

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Potentially, any network service is insecure. This is why turning unused services off is so important. Exploits for services are revealed and patched routinely, making it very important to keep packages associated with any network service updated.

Some network protocols are inherently more insecure than others. These include any services which do the following things:

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