The remote host is missing an update to kernel-image-2.4.17-ia64 announced via advisory DSA 423-1.

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20423-1

The IA-64 maintainers fixed several security related bugs in the Linux kernel 2.4.17 used for the IA-64 architecture, mostly by backporting fixes from 2.4.18. The resolved issues are identified by the appropriate CVE identifiers: CVE-2003-0001, CVE-2003-0018, CVE-2003-0127, CVE-2003-0461 CVE-2003-0462, CVE-2003-0476, CVE-2003-0501, CVE-2003-0550 CVE-2003-0551, CVE-2003-0552, CVE-2003-0961, CVE-2003-0985 For a more detailed description of the problems addressed, please visit the referenced security advisory. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version kernel-image-2.4.17-ia64 for the ia64 architecture. Other architectures are already or will be fixed separately. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon with newly uploaded packages.