On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 17:36:25 +0530, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The potential security issues are not limited to open ports and running > services but having the system affected through exploits on the > software installed even when you might have never used them. Well something needs to use them or they aren't going to be a problem. Common services are generally not going to be able to run them if they get hacked if you are using SELinux. The main danger is with plugins. Those need to be examined carefully in any case. (The other case would be if the user was running them directly, but if they are doing that they are probably going to want to accept the risk of running the programs in any case.)
