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://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/phpmyadmin/phpMyAdmin/export.php#rev2.3.2.1 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=107582619125932&w=2 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/cc0fb686-6550-11d8-80e3-0020ed76ef5a.html

The following package is affected: phpMyAdmin CVE-2004-0129 Directory traversal vulnerability in export.php in phpMyAdmin 2.5.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via .. (dot dot) sequences in the what parameter.