Description of problem:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#PIE says that "you MUST
enable the PIE compiler flags if your package is long running ...".

However, currently dropbear is not being built with PIE flags. This is a
clear violation of the packaging guidelines.

This issue (in its wider scope) is being discussed at,

https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1104

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-March/180827.html

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

dropbear-0.55-5.fc19.x86_64.rpm

How reproducible:

You can use following programs to check if a package is hardened:

http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/files/rpm-chksec

OR

https://github.com/kholia/checksec

Steps to Reproduce:

Get scanner.py from https://github.com/kholia/checksec

$ ./scanner.py dropbear-0.55-5.fc19.x86_64.rpm
dropbear,dropbear-0.55-5.fc19.x86_64.rpm,/usr/bin/dbclient,NX=Enabled,CANARY=Enabled,RELRO=Partial,PIE=Disabled,RPATH=Disabled,RUNPATH=Disabled,FORTIFY=Enabled,CATEGORY=network-ip
dropbear,dropbear-0.55-5.fc19.x86_64.rpm,/usr/bin/dropbearconvert,NX=Enabled,CANARY=Enabled,RELRO=Partial,PIE=Disabled,RPATH=Disabled,RUNPATH=Disabled,FORTIFY=Enabled,CATEGORY=network-ip
dropbear,dropbear-0.55-5.fc19.x86_64.rpm,/usr/bin/dropbearkey,NX=Enabled,CANARY=Enabled,RELRO=Partial,PIE=Disabled,RPATH=Disabled,RUNPATH=Disabled,FORTIFY=Enabled,CATEGORY=network-ip
dropbear,dropbear-0.55-5.fc19.x86_64.rpm,/usr/sbin/dropbear,NX=Enabled,CANARY=Enabled,RELRO=Partial,PIE=Disabled,RPATH=Disabled,RUNPATH=Disabled,FORTIFY=Enabled,CATEGORY=network-ip