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://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=35658 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-es-5-0-66.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-26.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/6.0/en/news-6-0-6.html http://secunia.com/advisories/31769 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/66a770b4-e008-11dd-a765-0030843d3802.html

The following package is affected: mysql-server CVE-2008-3963 MySQL 5.0 before 5.0.66, 5.1 before 5.1.26, and 6.0 before 6.0.6 does not properly handle a b'' (b single-quote single-quote) token, aka an empty bit-string literal, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by using this token in a SQL statement.