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=278265 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/169f422f-bd88-11d9-a281-02e018374e71.html

The following package is affected: ja-groff CVE-2004-0969 The groffer script in the Groff package 1.18 and later versions, as used in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 through 2.1, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files.