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+<title>Samba 4.18.9 - Release Notes</title>
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+<H2>Samba 4.18.9 Available for Download</H2>
+<p>
+<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/samba-4.18.9.tar.gz">Samba 4.18.9 (gzipped)</a><br>
+<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/samba-4.18.9.tar.asc">Signature</a>
+</p>
+<p>
+<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/patches/samba-4.18.8-4.18.9.diffs.gz">Patch (gzipped) against Samba 4.18.8</a><br>
+<a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/patches/samba-4.18.8-4.18.9.diffs.asc">Signature</a>
+</p>
+<p>
+<pre>
+ ==============================
+ Release Notes for Samba 4.18.9
+ November 29, 2023
+ ==============================
+
+
+This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.18 release series.
+It contains the security-relevant bugfix CVE-2018-14628:
+
+ Wrong ntSecurityDescriptor values for "CN=Deleted Objects"
+ allow read of object tombstones over LDAP
+ (Administrator action required!)
+ https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2018-14628.html
+
+
+Description of CVE-2018-14628
+-----------------------------
+
+All versions of Samba from 4.0.0 onwards are vulnerable to an
+information leak (compared with the established behaviour of
+Microsoft's Active Directory) when Samba is an Active Directory Domain
+Controller.
+
+When a domain was provisioned with an unpatched Samba version,
+the ntSecurityDescriptor is simply inherited from Domain/Partition-HEAD-Object
+instead of being very strict (as on a Windows provisioned domain).
+
+This means also non privileged users can use the
+LDAP_SERVER_SHOW_DELETED_OID control in order to view,
+the names and preserved attributes of deleted objects.
+
+No information that was hidden before the deletion is visible, but in
+with the correct ntSecurityDescriptor value in place the whole object
+is also not visible without administrative rights.
+
+There is no further vulnerability associated with this error, merely an
+information disclosure.
+
+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'.
+
+
+Changes since 4.18.8
+--------------------
+
+o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
+ * BUG 15497: Add make command for querying Samba version.
+
+o Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org>
+ * BUG 15487: smbd crashes if asked to return full information on close of a
+ stream handle with delete on close disposition set.
+ * BUG 15521: smbd: fix close order of base_fsp and stream_fsp in
+ smb_fname_fsp_destructor().
+
+o Björn Jacke <bj@sernet.de>
+ * BUG 15093: Files without "read attributes" NFS4 ACL permission are not
+ listed in directories.
+
+o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
+ * BUG 13595: CVE-2018-14628 [SECURITY] Deleted Object tombstones visible in
+ AD LDAP to normal users.
+
+o Christof Schmitt <cs@samba.org>
+ * BUG 15507: vfs_gpfs stat calls fail due to file system permissions.
+
+o Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@us.ibm.com>
+ * BUG 15497: Add make command for querying Samba version.
+
+o Martin Schwenke <mschwenke@ddn.com>
+ * BUG 15479: ctdbd: setproctitle not initialized messages flooding logs.
+
+
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