The remote host is missing an update as announced via advisory SSA:2005-170-01.

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=SSA:2005-170-01

Sun has released a couple of security advisories pertaining to both the Java Runtime Environment and the Standard Edition Development Kit. These could allow applets to read or write to local files. For more details, Sun's advisories may be found here: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101748-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101749-1 Slackware repackage's Sun's Java(TM) binaries without changing them, so the packages from Slackware -current should be used for all glibc based Slackware versions.