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://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2005/perl_patches_fix_sprintf_buffer.html http://www.dyadsecurity.com/perl-0002.html http://www.dyadsecurity.com/webmin-0001.html http://www.webmin.com/security.html http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/bb33981a-7ac6-11da-bf72-00123f589060.html

The following packages are affected: perl webmin usermin CVE-2005-3912 Format string vulnerability in miniserv.pl Perl web server in Webmin before 1.250 and Usermin before 1.180, with syslog logging enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or memory consumption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the username parameter to the login form, which is ultimately used in a syslog call. NOTE: the code execution might be associated with an issue in Perl. CVE-2005-3962 Integer overflow in the format string functionality (Perl_sv_vcatpvfn) in Perl 5.9.2 and 5.8.6 Perl allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary memory and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers with large values, which causes an integer wrap and leads to a buffer overflow, as demonstrated using format string vulnerabilities in Perl applications.