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=286371 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286372 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/01bb84e2-bd88-11d9-a281-02e018374e71.html

The following package is affected: ja-groff CVE-2004-1296 The (1) eqn2graph and (2) pic2graph scripts in groff 1.18.1 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.