sorona.xyz bug bounty programs
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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.
Start here
GCC
Sorona · Pays the most of the 3 programs: up to $1,500.
| Program | Critical | High | Medium | Low | Top reward | Safe harbor | KYC | First response | Status |
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GCC
Sorona · Bug bounty |
– | – | – | $100 (highest) | $1,500 | Partial | – | – | Open |
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GNU gzip
Sorona · Bug bounty |
– | – | – | $100 | $1,500 | Partial | – | – | Open |
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GNU Binutils
Sorona · Bug bounty |
– | – | – | $100 | $1,500 | Partial | – | – | Open |
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- Low
- $100 (highest)
- Safe harbor
- Partial
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- Critical
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- Medium
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- Low
- $100
- Safe harbor
- Partial
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- Critical
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- Low
- $100
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- Partial
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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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libiberty and the other support code linked into GCC and into consumers well beyond the GCC tree
Products and areas
Covered by GCC
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The DEFLATE decompressor and compressor, the code path that runs on effectively every Linux system
Products and areas
Covered by GNU gzip
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The trailer, including CRC and size checking and what gzip does when they disagree
Products and areas
Covered by GNU gzip
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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
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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.
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Anything posted to [email protected] or another public list, since that is disclosure rather than a report
GNU gzip
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Anything reached through a GCC plugin or through library preloading, ruled out by name
GCC
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Behaviour an administrator chose, such as pointing recursive mode at a directory tree they do not control
GNU gzip
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Compile-time crashes and internal compiler errors on malformed input, which are ordinary bugs
GCC
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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
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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
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Crashes found in a fuzzing harness with no merged upstream fix behind them, which earn nothing on the Google patch pathway
GNU Binutils
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Distribution packaging and distro-specific patches rather than upstream gzip
GNU gzip
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Distribution packaging of Binutils rather than defects in the upstream sources
GNU Binutils
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Failure to preserve properties the source language cannot express, such as wiping a secret from memory or holding constant-time behaviour through optimisation
GCC
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GCC and LLVM, which are separately listed and belong to the compiler framing rather than to Binutils
GNU Binutils
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GDB proper, which shares the repository but is a debugger rather than part of the build toolchain framing
GNU Binutils
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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
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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
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Other implementations of the gzip format. zlib, libdeflate, Go's compress/gzip and the rest are separate projects with their own reporting
GNU gzip
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Reports filed on GCC Bugzilla for an unfixed issue, since the project states that tracker is fully public
GCC
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This page gathers every public program listed under gnu.org: platform programs, self-hosted policies and security.txt contacts. Each program's own policy decides what is in scope and what it pays; check it before you test.
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