Windows Kernel pool memory disclosure in nt!NtNotifyChangeDirectoryFile(CVE-2017-0299)

We have discovered that the nt!NtNotifyChangeDirectoryFile system call discloses portions of uninitialized pool memory to user-mode clients, due to output structure alignment holes. On our test Windows 10 32-bit workstation, an example layout of the output buffer is as follows: --- cut ---...