Kernel-path reproduction attempts (root, /dev/nsmb via fake SMB server) reached the nsmb connection path and crashed the guest, but the crashes occur in the connection-setup/iod path on the minimal fake-server handshake, NOT cleanly in ssnsetup. Observed panics in dfbsd-qemu/boot.log: [run with multi-byte UTF-8 password, no local addr:] Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x0 Stopped at dup_sockaddr+0x18: movzbl (%rdi),%edi ^-- smb_vc_create() dup_sockaddr(vcspec->lap) with lap==NULL (trigger bug: a separate latent NULL-deref; smb_conn.c:466 lacks a NULL guard before dup_sockaddr). Occurs BEFORE ssnsetup, in both multi-byte and ASCII runs. [run after providing local addr, ASCII control password:] Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x58 current process = 874 Stopped at smb_iod_request+0x58: lock xaddl %edx,0x58(%rbx) ^-- iod/connection path NULL deref on the minimal NB+negotiate handshake; crashes the ASCII (no-overflow) control too, so NOT attributable to the DF-0641 ssnsetup overflow. A fully-conformant SMB1 server handshake is required to reach ssnsetup and was beyond the minimal fake server. CONCLUSION: the kernel-path overflow panic was not cleanly isolated; the smb_smb_ssnsetup heap overflow is instead proven deterministically by source arithmetic + overflow_harness.c (130-byte alloc, 258-byte write => 128-byte attacker-controlled heap overflow). Reachability is root-only (/dev/nsmb 0700).