Description: A vulnerability has been reported in IRC Services, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to the improper handling of overly long passwords within the "default_encrypt()" function in encrypt.c and can be exploited to crash an affected server.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 5.0.63 and 5.1.9.
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