{"description": "This section discusses a number of network-visible\nservices which have historically caused problems for system\nsecurity, and for which disabling or severely limiting the service\nhas been the best available guidance for some time. As a result of\nthis, many of these services are not installed as part of Ubuntu 22.04\nby default.\n<br /><br />\nOrganizations which are running these services should\nswitch to more secure equivalents as soon as possible.\nIf it remains absolutely necessary to run one of\nthese services for legacy reasons, care should be taken to restrict\nthe service as much as possible, for instance by configuring host\n\nfirewall software such as <tt>iptables</tt> to restrict access to the\n\nvulnerable service to only those remote hosts which have a known\nneed to use it.", "warnings": [], "requires": [], "conflicts": [], "values": {}, "groups": ["inetd_and_xinetd", "nis", "r_services", "talk", "telnet", "tftp"], "rules": ["package_rsync_removed", "service_rsyncd_disabled"], "platform": "", "platforms": [], "inherited_platforms": [], "cpe_platform_names": [], "title": "Obsolete Services", "definition_location": "/aptdata/openscap/scap-security-guide/linux_os/guide/services/obsolete/group.yml"}