diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/kconfig-frontends/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/kconfig-frontends/default.nix
index 13e02fb9272b..8449cf9b6f38 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/kconfig-frontends/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/kconfig-frontends/default.nix
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ bison flex gperf ncurses pkgconfig ];
 
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
   configureFlags = [
     "--enable-frontends=conf,mconf,nconf"
   ];