Bug 743147

Summary:	uucp: setuid binaries need to be position independent
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 12.2	Reporter:	Ludwig Nussel <lnussel>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Dr. Werner Fink <werner>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	security-team
Version:	Factory
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Blocks:	744091

Description Ludwig Nussel 2012-01-24 15:51:01 UTC

sendmail triggered the rpmlint check
"non-position-independent-executable" which means there are one or
more binaries that need to be compiled as position independent
executable.

To fix the issue add -fPIE to CFLAGS and -pie to LDFLAGS of the
binaries in question.

Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2012-01-24 16:12:27 UTC

Never as -fPIE slows down the binary due position independent code.
AFAICR this was a huge problem for the bash I had compiled in past
with  -fPIE and this will never happen again.

Comment 2 Ludwig Nussel 2012-01-24 16:28:27 UTC

oops, sendmail already is compiled using PIE since ages!
The bug report is actually about uucp. The script just followed the devel project chain which ends at sendmail for whatever reason.

Comment 3 Dr. Werner Fink 2012-01-24 17:32:28 UTC

fixed

Comment 4 Bernhard Wiedemann 2012-01-24 18:00:15 UTC

This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (743147) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/101398 Factory / sendmail