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://people.freebsd.org/~niels/issues/newspost-20050114.txt http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/7f13607b-6948-11d9-8937-00065be4b5b6.html
Insight
The following package is affected: newspost
CVE-2005-0101
Buffer overflow in the socket_getline function in Newspost 2.1.1 and earlier allows remote malicious NNTP servers to execute arbitrary code via a long string without a newline character.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2005-0101 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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