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 tigervnc 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): tigervnc-server-1.2.80-0.12.20130314svn5065.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 tigervnc-server-1.2.80-0.12.20130314svn5065.fc19.x86_64.rpm tigervnc-server,tigervnc-server-1.2.80-0.12.20130314svn5065.fc19.x86_64.rpm,/usr/bin/x0vncserver,NX=Enabled,CANARY=Enabled,RELRO=Partial,PIE=Disabled,RPATH=Disabled,RUNPATH=Disabled,FORTIFY=Enabled,CATEGORY=network-ip
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Created attachment 839426 [details] patch to enable PIE
Hi Tim, Can you please test the attached patch?
Thanks, I will. I haven't forgotten it.