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://secunia.com/advisories/37155
http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/68bda678-caab-11de-a97e-be89dfd1042e.html
Insight
The following package is affected: p5-HTML-Parser
CVE-2009-3627
The decode_entities function in util.c in HTML-Parser before 3.63 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an incomplete SGML numeric character reference, which triggers generation of an invalid UTF-8 character.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-3627 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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