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://leafnode.sourceforge.net/leafnode-SA-2002-01 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=2796226 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.leafnode.announce/8 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/f7a3b18c-624c-4703-9756-b6b27429e5b0.html

The following package is affected: leafnode CVE-2003-0744: The fetchnews client in leafnode allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process hang and termination) via certain malformed Usenet news articles that cause fetchnews to hang while waiting for input.