Summary
The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.
Solution
Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades.
http://www.lighttpd.net/news/
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/19350
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.lighttpd/1171 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/bdad9ada-8a52-11d9-9e53-000a95bc6fae.html
Insight
The following package is affected: lighttpd
CVE-2005-0453
The buffer_urldecode function in Lighttpd 1.3.7 and earlier does not properly handle control characters, which allows remote attackers to obtain the source code for CGI and FastCGI scripts via a URL with a %00 (null) character after the file extension.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2005-0453 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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