checksec: mdadm 710 Partial RELRO Canary found NX enabled No PIE * no "FULL RELRO" * no PIE ___________________________________________ If your package meets any of the following criteria you MUST enable the PIE compiler flags: Your package is long running. This means it's likely to be started and keep running until the machine is rebooted, not start on demand and quit on idle. Your package has suid binaries, or binaries with capabilities. Your package runs as root. If your package meets the following criteria you should consider enabling the PIE compiler flags: Your package accepts/processes untrusted input.
and why are the hardening flags not added due a new build? the package runs as root and so "you MUST enable the PIE compiler flags" is not a "you should"! * Tue Aug 13 2013 Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen> - 3.2.6-21 - Fix pointless rpmbuild noise over mismatching date info - Remove Fedora 17 support - Fix problem where first stop command doesn't stop container during IMSM volume's reshape bz956053 (f18), bz956056 (f19)
Because I will deal with the PIE stuff when I have time to dedicate some time to it. If you actually read the Fedora guide about this, you would also have noticed this portion: "There are some notable disadvantages to enabling PIE that should be considered in making the decision: Some code does not compile with PIE (or does not function properly)." mdadm is an important package that affects integrity of users' data. It is not something to just play around with randomly and see what might break! It needs to be tested properly, in particularly if messing with flags like PIE.
thanks, that is at least an answer to a bugreport opened a month ago there are hardened distributions with *all* packages Full RELRO/PIE "Immediate binding: no, not found!" to fix at least would be a good idea http://tk-blog.blogspot.co.at/2009/02/relro-not-so-well-known-memory.html
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