diff --git a/SOURCES/festival-2.5.0-pie.patch b/SOURCES/festival-2.5.0-pie.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fbeae64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SOURCES/festival-2.5.0-pie.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+diff -up festival/src/main/Makefile.pie festival/src/main/Makefile
+--- festival/src/main/Makefile.pie	2022-01-26 10:33:55.420688190 -0500
++++ festival/src/main/Makefile	2022-01-26 10:34:45.928050436 -0500
+@@ -54,13 +54,13 @@ ifeq (SIOD_PYTHON, $(findstring SIOD_PYT
+ endif
+ 
+ festival: festival_main.o $(LIBDEPS)
+-	$(LINK_COMMAND) -o festival festival_main.o $(LIBS)
++	$(LINK_COMMAND) -o festival festival_main.o -Wp,-pie $(LIBS)
+ 
+ festival_client: festival_client.o $(REQUIRED_LIBDEPS)
+-	$(LINK_COMMAND) -o festival_client festival_client.o $(LIBS)
++	$(LINK_COMMAND) -o festival_client festival_client.o -Wp,-pie $(LIBS)
+ 
+ $(ETCDIR)/audsp: $(ETCDIR)/.made audsp.o $(LIBDEPS)
+-	$(LINK_COMMAND) -o $(ETCDIR)/audsp audsp.o $(LIBS)
++	$(LINK_COMMAND) -o $(ETCDIR)/audsp audsp.o -Wp,-pie $(LIBS)
+ 
+ # Can't just rely on the dir as it gets updated with new files
+ # check for the data of a file created in etcdir
diff --git a/SPECS/festival.spec b/SPECS/festival.spec
index b21f2ca..d4ee6b3 100644
--- a/SPECS/festival.spec
+++ b/SPECS/festival.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Name: festival
 Summary: Speech synthesis and text-to-speech system
 Version: 2.5.0
-Release: 16%{?dist}
+Release: 17%{?dist}
 
 URL: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
 # The Emacs file is GPL+, there is one TCL-licensed source file, and
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ Patch101: festival-2.5.0-use-system-speech-tools.patch
 Patch102: festival-2.5.0-use-system-libs.patch
 Patch103: festival-2.5.0-filesystem-standard.patch
 Patch104: festival-2.5.0-siteinit.patch
+Patch105: festival-2.5.0-pie.patch
 
 BuildRequires: gcc
 BuildRequires: gcc-c++
@@ -298,6 +299,7 @@ you can also interface with Festival in via the shell or with BSD sockets.
 %patch102 -p1 -b .use-system-libs
 %patch103 -p1 -b .filesystem-standard
 %patch104 -p1 -b .siteinit
+%patch105 -p1 -b .pie
 
 %build
 
@@ -489,6 +491,9 @@ exit 0
 
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Jan 26 2022 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> - 2.5.0-17
+- Link binaries with -pie. Related: rhbz:#2044857
+
 * Mon Aug 09 2021 Mohan Boddu <mboddu@redhat.com> - 2.5.0-16
 - Rebuilt for IMA sigs, glibc 2.34, aarch64 flags
   Related: rhbz#1991688