The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.

Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00023.html http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/36235c38-e0a8-11e1-9f4d-002354ed89bc.html

The following package is affected: automake CVE-2012-3386 The 'make distcheck' rule in GNU Automake before 1.11.6 and 1.12.x before 1.12.2 grants world-writable permissions to the extraction directory, which introduces a race condition that allows local users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.