The remote host is missing an update to mysql announced via advisory DSA 212-1.

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20212-1

While performing an audit of MySQL e-matters found several problems: * signed/unsigned problem in COM_TABLE_DUMP Two sizes were taken as signed integers from a request and then cast to unsigned integers without checking for negative numbers. Since the resulting numbers where used for a memcpy() operation this could lead to memory corruption. * Password length handling in COM_CHANGE_USER When re-authenticating to a different user MySQL did not perform all checks that are performed on initial authentication. This created two problems: * it allowed for single-character password brute forcing (as was fixed in February 2000 for initial login) which could be used by a normal user to gain root privileges to the database * it was possible to overflow the password buffer and force the server to execute arbitrary code * read_rows() overflow in libmysqlclient When processing the rows returned by a SQL server there was no check for overly large rows or terminating NUL characters. This can be used to exploit SQL clients if they connect to a compromised MySQL server. * read_one_row() overflow in libmysqlclient When processing a row as returned by a SQL server the returned field sizes were not verified. This can be used to exploit SQL clients if they connect to a compromised MySQL server. For Debian GNU/Linux 3.0/woody this has been fixed in version 3.23.49-8.2 and version 3.22.32-6.3 for Debian GNU/Linux 2.2/potato. We recommend that you upgrade your mysql packages as soon as possible.