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nagios-plugins: should be built with PIE flags

Package(s):

nagios-plugins

CVE #(s):

Created:

June 3, 2013

Updated:

June 5, 2013

Description:

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-plugins is not being built with PIE flags. This is a clear violation of the packaging guidelines.

Alerts:

Fedora

2013-06-01

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