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://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html#vuln13 http://secunia.com/advisories/18718 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122029 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/104beb63-af4d-11da-8414-0013d4a4a40e.html

The following packages are affected: mplayer mplayer-gtk mplayer-esound mplayer-gtk-esound CVE-2006-0579 Multiple integer overflows in (1) the new_demux_packet function in demuxer.h and (2) the demux_asf_read_packet function in demux_asf.c in MPlayer 1.0pre7try2 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an ASF file with a large packet length value. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown portions of the details are obtained from third party information.