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://securityreason.com/securityalert/3802 http://bugs.python.org/issue2586 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/ec41c3e2-129c-11dd-bab7-0016179b2dd5.html

The following packages are affected: python23 python24 python25 CVE-2008-1721 Integer signedness error in the zlib extension module in Python 2.5.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a negative signed integer, which triggers insufficient memory allocation and a buffer overflow.