Summary
The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:25.kmem.asc
Solution
Upgrade your system to the appropriate stable release or security branch dated after the correction date
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FreeBSD-SA-06:25.kmem.asc
Insight
The firewire(4) driver provides support for IEEE 1394 (FireWire) interfaces. This driver provides some of its functionality via the ioctl(2) system call.
In the FW_GCROM ioctl, a signed integer comparison is used instead of an unsigned integer comparison when computing the length of a buffer to be copied from the kernel into the calling application.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2006-6013 -
CVSS Base Score: 2.1
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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