saptune 3.1.5 again – Care for some PIE?

You may have noticed, that again 3.1.5 appeared in the repositories for SLES for SAP Applications 12 SP5 and 15 SP3-6.

12 SP5: 3.1.5-4.39.2
15 SP3: 3.1.5-150100.8.51.2
15 SP4: 3.1.5-150400.15.22.2
15 SP5: 3.1.5-150400.15.22.2
15 SP6: 3.1.5-150400.15.22.2

The packages only differ in the release part (after the dash), meaning that the package has been rebuild.

To increase security, the saptune binary has been recompiled with -buildmode=pie to be loaded into random locations within virtual memory each time it is executed.

Before I try to explain the background, let people do this for me who are better at it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position-independent_code

Who would have thought that some PIE can be good for you?

That’s all.

Have a nice day!