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://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=380347 http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/elinks-users/2008-February/001604.html http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/2544f543-c178-11de-b175-001cc0377035.html

The following package is affected: elinks CVE-2008-7224 Buffer overflow in entity_cache in ELinks before 0.11.4rc0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted link.