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://pcre.org/changelog.txt
http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/f9e96930-e6df-11dc-8c6a-00304881ac9a.html
Insight
The following package is affected: pcre
CVE-2008-0674
Buffer overflow in PCRE before 7.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression containing a character class with a large number of characters with Unicode code points greater than 255.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-0674 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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