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://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-48.html http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/c2eac2b5-9a7d-11df-8e32-000f20797ede.html

The following packages are affected: firefox linux-firefox CVE-2010-2755 layout/generic/nsObjectFrame.cpp in Mozilla Firefox 3.6.7 does not properly free memory in the parameter array of a plugin instance, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document, related to the DATA and SRC attributes of an OBJECT element. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2010-1214.