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. http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2010-01.txt https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-announce/2010-February/000073.html http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/2a6a966f-1774-11df-b5c1-0026189baca3.html

The following package is affected: fetchmail CVE-2010-0562 The sdump function in sdump.c in fetchmail 6.3.11, 6.3.12, and 6.3.13, when running in verbose mode on platforms for which char is signed, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an SSL X.509 certificate containing non-printable characters with the high bit set, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow during escaping.