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://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-sftp-readdir.html http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-sftp-string.html http://lists.tartarus.org/pipermail/putty-announce/2005/000012.html http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=110902510713763 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/a413ed94-836e-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82.html

The following package is affected: putty CVE-2005-0467 Multiple integer overflows in the (1) sftp_pkt_getstring and (2) fxp_readdir_recv functions in the PSFTP and PSCP clients for PuTTY 0.56, and possibly earlier versions, allow remote malicious web sites to execute arbitrary code via SFTP responses that corrupt the heap after insufficient memory has been allocated.