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://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=882903 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/31/1 http://net-snmp.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/net-snmp/tags/Ext-5-2-5-1/net-snmp/agent/snmp_agent.c?r1=17271&r2=17272&pathrev=17272 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/daf045d7-b211-11dd-a987-000c29ca8953.html

The following packages are affected: net-snmp net-snmp53 CVE-2008-4309 Integer overflow in the netsnmp_create_subtree_cache function in agent/snmp_agent.c in net-snmp 5.4 before 5.4.2.1, 5.3 before 5.3.2.3, and 5.2 before 5.2.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted SNMP GETBULK request, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, related to the number of responses or repeats.