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://samba.org/rsync/#security_aug04 http://secunia.com/advisories/12294 http://www.osvdb.org/8829 http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync-announce/2004/000017.html http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/2689f4cb-ec4c-11d8-9440-000347a4fa7d.html

The following package is affected: rsync CVE-2004-0792 Directory traversal vulnerability in the sanitize_path function in util.c for rsync 2.6.2 and earlier, when chroot is disabled, allows attackers to read or write certain files.