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://leafnode.sourceforge.net/leafnode-SA-2003-01 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=5975563 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.leafnode.announce/21 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/7b0208ff-3f65-4e16-8d4d-48fd9851f085.html

The following package is affected: leafnode CVE-2003-0744 The fetchnews client in leafnode 1.9.3 to 1.9.41 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process hang and termination) via certain malformed Usenet news articles that cause fetchnews to hang while waiting for input.