The remote host is missing an update to gedit announced via advisory DSA 753-1. A format string vulnerability has been discovered in gedit, a light-weight text editor for GNOME, that may allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a binary file with format string specifiers in the filename. Since gedit supports opening files via http:// URLs (through GNOME vfs) and other schemes, this might be a remotely exploitable vulnerability. The old stable distribution (woody) is not vulnerable to this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.3-4sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.10.3-1. We recommend that you upgrade your gedit package. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20753-1