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://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2004-004-pwhist.txt http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/0bb7677d-52f3-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82.html

The following packages are affected: krb5 krb5-beta CVE-2004-1189 The add_to_history function in svr_principal.c in libkadm5srv for MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) up to 1.3.5, when performing a password change, does not properly track the password policy's history count and the maximum number of keys, which can cause an array index out-of-bounds error and may allow authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a heap-based buffer overflow.