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://secunia.com/advisories/27761 http://ircservices.za.net/Changes.txt http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/e5a9de5f-c6bc-11dc-b9f1-00a0cce0781e.html

The following package is affected: ircservices CVE-2007-6122 The default_encrypt function in encrypt.c in IRC Services before 5.0.63, and 5.1.x before 5.1.7, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a long password. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.