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SAMBA+ 4.19.3-5 and SAMBA+ 4.18.9-9 have just been released by SerNet's Samba team. Packages for various SUSE and Red Hat platforms as well as for Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu and AIX are available now.

Please see the release history here:

• https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.19.3.html
• https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.18.9.html

The fix for CVE-2018-14628, which is now part of the upstream 4.19.3 and 4.18.9 releases was already fixed in SAMBA+ 4.19.2 and SAMBA+ 4.18.8. For completeness we describe once more how to apply the actual fix for the AD database. If you did that already along with the previous SAMBA+ update, then you don't have to do the following steps again.

Action required in order to resolve CVE-2018-14628

The patched Samba does NOT protect existing domains!

The administrator needs to run the following command (on only one domain controller) in order to apply the protection to an existing domain:

  samba-tool dbcheck --cross-ncs --attrs=nTSecurityDescriptor --fix

The above requires manual interaction in order to review the changes before they are applied. Typicall question look like this:

  Reset nTSecurityDescriptor on CN=Deleted Objects,DC=samba,DC=org back to provision default?
        Owner mismatch: SY (in ref) DA(in current)
        Group mismatch: SY (in ref) DA(in current)
        Part dacl is different between reference and current here is the detail:
                (A;;LCRPLORC;;;AU) ACE is not present in the reference
                (A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;SY) ACE is not present in the reference
                (A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;DA) ACE is not present in the reference
                (A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPSDRCWDWO;;;SY) ACE is not present in the current
                (A;;LCRP;;;BA) ACE is not present in the current
   [y/N/all/none] y
  Fixed attribute 'nTSecurityDescriptor' of 'CN=Deleted Objects,DC=samba,DC=org' 

The change should be confirmed with 'y' for all objects starting with

'CN=Deleted Objects'.

SAMBA+ 4.17.11 has just been released. Packages for various SUSE and Red Hat platforms as well as for Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu and AIX are available now.

These packages address several issues, which are listed in the release notes:
https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.17.11.html

The process on how to access the SAMBA+ Software Packages has changed. Please consult our SAMBA+ HowTo to learn more. 

SAMBA+ 4.18.5, 4.17.10 and 4.16.11 have just been released. Packages for various SUSE and Red Hat platforms as well as for Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu and AIX are available now. Please note: This are Security Updates, packages should be deployed as soon as possible.

These packages address several security related issues:

• CVE-2022-2127: When winbind is used for NTLM authentication, a maliciously crafted request can trigger an out-of-bounds read in winbind and possibly crash it.
• CVE-2023-34966: An infinite loop bug in Samba's mdssvc RPC service for Spotlight can be triggered by an unauthenticated attacker by issuing a malformed RPC request.
• CVE-2023-34967: Missing type validation in Samba's mdssvc RPC service for Spotlight can be used by an unauthenticated attacker to trigger a process crash in a shared RPC mdssvc worker process. 
• CVE-2023-34968: As part of the Spotlight protocol Samba discloses the server- side absolute path of shares and files and directories in search results.

An update for SAMBA+ 4.18.4, 4.16.10 and 4.17.9 has been released. Packages for various SUSE and Red Hat platforms as well as for Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu are available now.

These packages address the following issue:

• Bug 15418 - secure channel faulty since Windows 10/11 update 07/2023
  The recently released Windows Update KB5028185/KB5028166 (July 11, 2023) breaks the client authentication against Samba AD DCs. 

SAMBA+ 4.18.4 has just been released by SerNet. Packages for various SUSE and Red Hat platforms as well as for Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu and AIX are
available now.

These packages address several issues, which are listed in the release notes for Samba 4.18.4.

Additionally this release includes fixes for:

•   Bug 15275 - smbd_scavenger crashes when service smbd is stopped
•   Bug 15416 - cldap_ping_list doesn't reset num_requests to 0 on retry

The fix for the following issue was already included in the previous SAMBA+ release:

• Bug 15381 - Register Samba processes with GPFS