Summary
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory GLSA 200402-03.
Solution
All users are recommended to upgrade monkeyd to 0.8.2:
# emerge sync
# emerge -pv '>=net-www/monkeyd-0.8.2'
# emerge '>=net-www/monkeyd-0.8.2'
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=GLSA%20200402-03 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41156
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/monkeyd/monkeyd/src/utils.c?r1=1.3&r2=1.4
Insight
A bug in get_real_string() function allows for a Denial of Service attack to be launched against the webserver.
