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Description of problem: Daemons and programs that run with elevated privileges need to be PIE executables and have RELRO flag set. Steps to Reproduce: 1. using http://www.trapkit.de/tools/checksec.sh 2. checksec.sh --file /usr/bin/sudo Actual results: No RELRO Canary found NX enabled PIE enabled Expected results: RELRO Canary found NX enabled PIE enabled
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Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. New Contents: Because the sudo utility needs to be run with elevated privileges, the sudo package is now built with RELRO linker flags.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1175.html