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/30020 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/402ae710-26a2-11dd-ae05-825f4c35000a.html

The following package is affected: peercast CVE-2008-2040 Stack-based buffer overflow in the HTTP::getAuthUserPass function (core/common/http.cpp) in Peercast 0.1218 and gnome-peercast allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a Basic Authentication string with a long (1) username or (2) password.