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://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=111271860708210 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=111402732406477 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/63bd4bad-dffe-11d9-b875-0001020eed82.html

The following package is affected: gzip CVE-2005-0988 Race condition in gzip 1.2.4, 1.3.3, and earlier when decompressing a gzip allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is being decompressed, whose permissions are changed by gzip after the decompression is complete. CVE-2005-1228 Directory traversal vulnerability in gunzip -N in gzip 1.2.4 through 1.3.5 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary directories via a .. (dot dot) in the original filename within a compressed file.