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Sorona.xyz runs three public programs: a Sorona bug bounty paying up to $1,500, a Sorona bug bounty paying up to $1,500 and a Sorona bug bounty paying up to $1,500.

Top reward
$1,500
Sorona
Programs
3
3 pay cash
Targets in scope
25
2 types, deduplicated
Last change
None yet
Tracked since Nov 2026

Where to report

3 programs, side by side. Report where the affected target is in scope; when two programs cover it, pick the one that pays more.

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GCC

Sorona · Pays the most of the 3 programs: up to $1,500.

Amounts are the top reward per severity in the currency each program pays. Green marks the highest per severity. First response is the platform's measured average when it publishes one, else what the policy promises.

What is in scope

25 targets across all 3 programs, each listed once with the programs that cover it. 16 excluded.

  • https://gcc.gnu.org

    Web

    Covered by GCC

  • https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils

    Web

    Covered by GNU Binutils

  • https://www.gnu.org/software/gzip

    Web

    Covered by GNU gzip

  • ar and archive-member handling, directly relevant because a .deb is an ar archive and every Debian install unpacks one

    Products and areas

    Covered by GNU Binutils

  • Code generation across every back end and every target, where the emitted binary dereferences an invalid pointer, reads or writes the wrong address, or crashes because the codegen was wrong

    Products and areas

    Covered by GCC

  • Command-line handling and filesystem behaviour: the suffix logic, recursive mode, the output path gzip derives from an input name, and permission and ownership handling on the file it writes

    Products and areas

    Covered by GNU gzip

  • GCC's SECURITY.txt draws the line in one place: a defect in the compiler itself is a security issue only when it generates vulnerable application code from conforming source the developer trusted. The runtime libraries GCC ships into finished binaries are evaluated separately, on their own security impact

    Products and areas

    Covered by GCC

  • gzexe and the self-extracting shell scripts it generates

    Products and areas

    Covered by GNU gzip

  • gzip header parsing in full: the stored filename field, the comment field, the extra fields and the flags that say which are present

    Products and areas

    Covered by GNU gzip

  • libiberty and the other support code linked into GCC and into consumers well beyond the GCC tree

    Products and areas

    Covered by GCC

  • libstdc++ in particular, since it is linked into a very large share of C++ software and runs on whatever data those programs receive

    Products and areas

    Covered by GCC

  • Performance regressions in generated code severe enough to constitute denial of service, an accepted class named in the policy

    Products and areas

    Covered by GCC

  • The BFD library in full: the object-file parsers for ELF, PE/COFF, Mach-O and XCOFF together with the debug-info readers underneath them

    Products and areas

    Covered by GNU Binutils

  • The binary-inspection tools as a set. objdump, readelf, nm, strings and addr2line parse attacker-supplied binaries, which is exactly what malware triage and CI artifact inspection do all day

    Products and areas

    Covered by GNU Binutils

  • The C, C++, Fortran, Ada, Go, D and Modula-2 front ends, to the extent a defect propagates into generated code rather than stopping at a compile-time failure

    Products and areas

    Covered by GCC

  • The DEFLATE decompressor and compressor, the code path that runs on effectively every Linux system

    Products and areas

    Covered by GNU gzip

  • The ld linker and everything it consumes: hostile object files, linker scripts, archive members, where the input is chosen by whoever supplied the dependency

    Products and areas

    Covered by GNU Binutils

  • The legacy decoders compiled into every build: LZH, pack and compress, along with the format detection that decides which of them handles a file

    Products and areas

    Covered by GNU gzip

  • The object-transformation tools that CI pipelines apply to build outputs, including gprof, objcopy and strip, running unattended on artifacts a build may not fully control

    Products and areas

    Covered by GNU Binutils

  • The optimisation passes, where a transformation applied to conforming source produces a binary with a memory-safety defect the source did not have

    Products and areas

    Covered by GCC

  • The shipped runtime libraries in full: libgcc, libstdc++, libgomp, libssp, libquadmath, libbacktrace and libatomic. All of these land inside production binaries and carry ordinary library risk

    Products and areas

    Covered by GCC

  • The sourceware security process takes any reproducible security defect in Binutils itself. The only boundary it draws is the project line: GDB, GCC and LLVM are separate projects even where they share a repository, so what follows is the whole Binutils tree

    Products and areas

    Covered by GNU Binutils

  • The trailer, including CRC and size checking and what gzip does when they disagree

    Products and areas

    Covered by GNU gzip

  • The zgrep, zless, zdiff, zmore, zcat and zforce wrapper scripts shipped with gzip, which take filenames from the caller and hand them to other tools

    Products and areas

    Covered by GNU gzip

  • There is no gzip-specific security policy. The GNU-wide policy is the only written guidance and it accepts a private report by email to the maintainers, with [email protected] as a fallback. Nothing narrower than the gzip tree is carved out, because nothing is carved out at all

    Products and areas

    Covered by GNU gzip

No target matches. Try part of a host name, such as the company name.

Out of scope 16

Don't test these. A program can exclude a host another program covers; the program you report to decides.

  • Anything posted to [email protected] or another public list, since that is disclosure rather than a report

    GNU gzip

  • Anything reached through a GCC plugin or through library preloading, ruled out by name

    GCC

  • Behaviour an administrator chose, such as pointing recursive mode at a directory tree they do not control

    GNU gzip

  • Compile-time crashes and internal compiler errors on malformed input, which are ordinary bugs

    GCC

  • Compiling untrusted source code. The policy states plainly that this can result in arbitrary code execution and that it should be done inside a sandbox

    GCC

  • Compression-ratio denial of service inherent to DEFLATE. A file that expands enormously is a property of the format rather than a gzip defect

    GNU gzip

  • Crashes found in a fuzzing harness with no merged upstream fix behind them, which earn nothing on the Google patch pathway

    GNU Binutils

  • Distribution packaging and distro-specific patches rather than upstream gzip

    GNU gzip

  • Distribution packaging of Binutils rather than defects in the upstream sources

    GNU Binutils

  • Failure to preserve properties the source language cannot express, such as wiping a secret from memory or holding constant-time behaviour through optimisation

    GCC

  • GCC and LLVM, which are separately listed and belong to the compiler framing rather than to Binutils

    GNU Binutils

  • GDB proper, which shares the repository but is a debugger rather than part of the build toolchain framing

    GNU Binutils

  • Hardening features failing to catch every case. -fstack-protector, -fstack-clash-protection and _FORTIFY_SOURCE are best-effort by the policy's own statement, and a gap in one is not itself a vulnerability

    GCC

  • One-line patches that fix non-exploitable crashes, including crashes that only amount to resource exhaustion, which the Patch Rewards rules say will not generally be rewarded

    GNU Binutils

  • Other implementations of the gzip format. zlib, libdeflate, Go's compress/gzip and the rest are separate projects with their own reporting

    GNU gzip

  • Reports filed on GCC Bugzilla for an unfixed issue, since the project states that tracker is fully public

    GCC

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