diff --git a/configure b/configure
index e39ecb9b58..a89639db76 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -5067,9 +5067,11 @@ elif enabled ccc; then
 elif enabled gcc; then
     check_optflags -fno-tree-vectorize
     check_cflags -Werror=implicit-function-declaration
+    check_cflags -Werror=format-security
     check_cflags -Werror=missing-prototypes
     check_cflags -Werror=return-type
     check_cflags -Werror=vla
+    check_cflags -Wformat
     enabled extra_warnings || check_disable_warning -Wno-maybe-uninitialized
 elif enabled llvm_gcc; then
     check_cflags -mllvm -stack-alignment=16