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://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=843 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200505-07.xml http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/v3.7.3.html http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/68222076-010b-11da-bc08-0001020eed82.html

The following packages are affected: tiff linux-tiff pdflib pdflib-perl fractorama gdal iv ivtools ja-iv ja-libimg paraview CVE-2005-1544 Stack-based buffer overflow in libTIFF before 1.53 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a TIFF file with a malformed BitsPerSample tag.