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.anu.edu.au/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.8-NEWS http://secunia.com/advisories/19920/ http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/af2a60ed-da3e-11da-93e0-00123ffe8333.html

The following package is affected: rsync CVE-2006-2083 Integer overflow in the receive_xattr function in the extended attributes patch (xattr.c) for rsync before 2.6.8 might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted extended attributes that trigger a buffer overflow.