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://www.exim.org/lurker/message/20101209.022730.dbb6732d.en.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661756#c3 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/e4fcf020-0447-11e0-becc-0022156e8794.html

The following package is affected: exim CVE-2010-4345 Exim 4.72 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging the ability of the exim user account to specify an alternate configuration file with a directive that contains arbitrary commands, as demonstrated by the spool_directory directive.