Description of problem: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#PIE says that "you MUST enable the PIE compiler flags if your package has suid binaries...". However, currently nagios 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): nagios-plugins-fping-1.4.16-6.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 nagios-plugins-fping-1.4.16-6.fc19.x86_64.rpm nagios-plugins-fping,nagios-plugins-fping-1.4.16-6.fc19.x86_64.rpm,/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_fping,mode=0104750,NX=Enabled,CANARY=Enabled,RELRO=Partial,PIE=Disabled,RPATH=Disabled,RUNPATH=Disabled,FORTIFY=Enabled,CATEGORY=network-ip
(In reply to Dhiru Kholia from comment #0) The above report is confusing: it basically mentions a nagios-plugin subpackage for a problem in the nagios package.
$ rpm -q checksec nagios checksec-1.5-2.fc19.noarch nagios-3.5.0-3.fc19.x86_64 $ checksec --file /usr/sbin/nagios RELRO STACK CANARY NX PIE RPATH RUNPATH FILE Partial RELRO Canary found NX enabled No PIE No RPATH RUNPATH /usr/sbin/nagios
nagios-3.5.0-5.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/nagios-3.5.0-5.fc19
nagios-3.5.0-5.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/nagios-3.5.0-5.fc18
$ rpm -q checksec nagios checksec-1.5-2.fc19.noarch nagios-3.5.0-5.fc19.x86_64 $ checksec --file /usr/sbin/nagios RELRO STACK CANARY NX PIE RPATH RUNPATH FILE Full RELRO Canary found NX enabled PIE enabled No RPATH RUNPATH /usr/sbin/nagios
Package nagios-3.5.0-5.fc18: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing nagios-3.5.0-5.fc18' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-10950/nagios-3.5.0-5.fc18 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
nagios-3.5.0-5.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
nagios-3.5.0-5.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.