diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/3.x.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/3.x.nix
index 4a58ae43bb7..16765083c55 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/3.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/3.x.nix
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  hardening_bindnow = false;
+  hardening_relro = false;
+
   meta = {
     description = "Open Computer Vision Library with more than 500 algorithms";
     homepage = http://opencv.org/;