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# What day-zero dug up in tcpip.sys

Windows TCP/IP driver, 8,421 functions, no symbols. These are leads, not
confirmed bugs — spots worth opening in Ghidra, not proof of anything.

A length going into `NdisGetDataBuffer`:

```
len = ((arg2 & 0xf) << 2) - 20
```

Low nibble times 4, minus 20 — a header-length field in 4-byte words with a
20-byte header subtracted off. Nibble under 5 and it underflows to ~4GB.

A length walked through four functions, none of them bounding it, from a network
entry point down into a packet parser:

```
0x1400557d0 -> 0x140053d04 -> 0x14006323c -> 0x140061850 -> NdisGetDataBuffer
```

Every hop assumes someone else checked it.

A handful of WFP functions (`WfpBufferCopy`,
`WfpHandOffTupleStateToTemporaryAleEntry`) hand an unchecked value straight to
`ExAllocatePool2` as the allocation size. One computes it as `(input << 4) + 0x2e`
— multiply attacker input by 16, allocate that.

And the spots that *do* bound the same `(nibble << 2)` length with a proper
`<= 0x14` check — flagged as fine, not as findings.


# Usage
Easy start:
```py binspect.py  tcpip.sys --trace```
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