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://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/1e8e63c0-478a-11dd-a88d-000ea69a5213.html

The following package is affected: fetchmail CVE-2008-2711 fetchmail 6.3.8 and earlier, when running in -v -v mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash and persistent mail failure) via a malformed mail message with long headers, which is not properly handled when using vsnprintf to format log messages.