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 tabled 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): tabled-0.5.1-0.5.g33595340.fc18.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 tabled-0.5.1-0.5.g33595340.fc18.x86_64.rpm tabled,tabled-0.5.1-0.5.g33595340.fc18.x86_64.rpm,/usr/sbin/tabled,NX=Enabled,CANARY=Enabled,RELRO=Partial,PIE=Disabled,RPATH=Disabled,RUNPATH=Disabled,FORTIFY=Enabled,CATEGORY=network-ip tabled,tabled-0.5.1-0.5.g33595340.fc18.x86_64.rpm,/usr/sbin/tdbadm,NX=Enabled,CANARY=Enabled,RELRO=Partial,PIE=Disabled,RPATH=Disabled,RUNPATH=Disabled,FORTIFY=Enabled,CATEGORY=None
Fixed in tabled-0.5.2-2.fc20.
Pete, Will F19 get the fixed version as well?
Do we really need it? The package has no users, I just keep it around so we can pilfer useful code from it (for e.g. Openstack swift-oserver). I suppose I could...
Oh what the heck, have tabled-0.5.2-2.fc19. Pushing to Bodhi.
tabled-0.5.2-2.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tabled-0.5.2-2.fc19
tabled-0.5.2-2.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.