Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <023101c520e2$fd25ae50$c40110ac@robinson.cam.ac.uk> From: "Max Bowsher" To: , References: Subject: Re: CSAgent warning with setup.exe Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:52:46 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-IsSubscribed: yes Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Will Parsons wrote: >I have cygwin 1.5.13 installed on the my WinXP machine at work. The IT > department apparently has recently installed Cisco Security Agent and now > when I run setup.exe I get a warning message that setup.exe "tried to make > system call from self-modifying code" and that this may mean the program > has been subverted by a buffer overflow attack. > > Is this true and if so is it something I should worry about? setup.exe does contain some legitimate self-modifying code (in autoload.c if anyone is interested). So, it's fairly likely this is a false alarm. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/