mplayer PIE on amd64 :)

For ages it was not possible to compile mplayer as Position Independent Executable (at least not on amd64) - until today! To my greatest surprise it compiled fine using the default gentoo hardened gcc spec, including PIE support.

So simply sync your portage tree, emerge mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20100427 and enjoy! Watching your favourite movie has never felt so safe before! ;]


./checksec.sh --file /usr/bin/mplayer
RELRO STACK CANARY NX PIE FILE
Full RELRO Canary found NX enabled PIE enabled /usr/bin/mplayer

...or alternatively:

readelf -h /usr/bin/mplayer
ELF Header:
Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Class: ELF64
Data: 2's complement, little endian
Version: 1 (current)
OS/ABI: UNIX - System V
ABI Version: 0
Type: DYN (Shared object file)
Machine: Advanced Micro Devices X86-64
Version: 0x1
Entry point address: 0xcae48
Start of program headers: 64 (bytes into file)
Start of section headers: 9064016 (bytes into file)
Flags: 0x0
Size of this header: 64 (bytes)
Size of program headers: 56 (bytes)
Number of program headers: 10
Size of section headers: 64 (bytes)
Number of section headers: 27
Section header string table index: 26

Enjoy the PIE! ;]