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://secunia.com/advisories/12175 http://www.osvdb.org/8267 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2004-q3/0014.html http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/3e4ffe76-e0d4-11d8-9b0a-000347a4fa7d.html

The following package is affected: sox CVE-2004-0557 Multiple buffer overflows in the st_wavstartread function in wav.c for Sound eXchange (SoX) 12.17.2 through 12.17.4 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain WAV file header fields.