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.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200504-25.xml http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/f14ad681-5b88-11dc-812d-0011098b2f36.html

The following package is affected: rkhunter CVE-2005-1270 The (1) check_update.sh and (2) rkhunter script in Rootkit Hunter before 1.2.3-r1 create temporary files with predictable file names, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.