                   ==============================
                   Release Notes for Samba 4.24.5
                           July 28, 2026
                   ==============================


This is a security release in order to address the following defects:

o CVE-2026-6949:   TSIG packet with name compression can crash DNS

                   Incorrect size calculations when a TSIG record contains
                   compressed names can lead to a large out-of-bounds write
                   causing the server to crash.

                   https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2026-6949.html


o CVE-2026-58216:  An authenticated user could possibly crash a KDC process

                   A kpasswd packet that contains malformed ASN.1 might cause
                   the server to access 6 bytes of unallocated memory. This
                   memory is not exposed to the user, but in some
                   circumstances the server could crash.

                   https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2026-58216.html


o CVE-2026-58218:  DNS signing DoS via TKEY name cache exhaustion

                   An unauthenticated user can repeatedly register names TKEY
                   names, which floods a cache causing legitimate TKEYs to be
                   expunged. This can practically block the use DNS TSIG
                   signing.

                   https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2026-58218.html


o CVE-2026-58221:  Samba AD authenticated LDAP access domain takeover

                   Samba AD low-privilege authenticated LDAP access allows
                   modifications to internal LDB special DNs, which permits a
                   domain takeover.

                   https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2026-58221.html


o CVE-2026-58222:  Samba AD LDAP Compare filter injection and trusted-request
                   confusion disclose protected attributes

                   An ordinary authenticated domain user can bypass access
                   checks and query confidential Active Directory attributes
                   (such as KDS root keys) via LDAP Compare requests. Due to a
                   filter injection flaw and trusted execution context, the
                   LDAP Compare operation can be turned into a
                   protected-attribute disclosure oracle.

                   https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2026-58222.html


o CVE-2026-58224   The CTDB protocol has bounds checking issues

                   CTDB fails to do integrity checking of received packets.
                   This includes failure to check field lengths against packet
                   lengths when unmarshalling packets.

                   https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2026-58224.html


Changes since 4.24.4
--------------------

o  Douglas Bagnall <douglas.bagnall@catalyst.net.nz>
   * BUG 16087: CVE-2026-58216

o  Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
   * BUG 16115: CVE-2026-58218

o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
   * BUG 16083: CVE-2026-6949
   * BUG 16147: CVE-2026-58221
   * BUG 16148: CVE-2026-58222

o  Martin Schwenke <mschwenke@ddn.com>
   * BUG 16085: CVE-2026-58224


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feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
the problem then you will probably be ignored.  All bug reports should
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======================================================================
== Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
== The Samba Team
======================================================================


Release notes for older releases follow:
----------------------------------------
                   ==============================
                   Release Notes for Samba 4.24.4
                           June 30, 2026
                   ==============================


This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.24 release series.


Changes since 4.24.3
--------------------

o  Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
   * BUG 16095: Use-after-free in handling acls with claims and conditions

o  Gary Lockyer <gary@catalyst.net.nz>
   * BUG 16092: Compilers may ignore overflow checks - Fix tautological-compare
     warnings

o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
   * BUG 14638: restrict anonymous = 2 breaks RODC functionality
   * BUG 16006: warning: assignment discards 'const' qualifier from pointer
     target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
   * BUG 16067: Require NTLMv2 session security on Windows makes trusts to Samba
     unusable
   * BUG 16092: Compilers may ignore overflow checks - Fix tautological-compare
     warnings
   * BUG 16151: winbindd stuck in init_dc_connection_rpc() returning
     NT_STATUS_TRUSTED_DOMAIN_FAILURE

o  Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
   * BUG 16006: warning: assignment discards 'const' qualifier from pointer
     target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
   * BUG 16149: domain\user not split when provided as username in
     smbc_set_credentials_with_fallback()


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feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
the problem then you will probably be ignored.  All bug reports should
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======================================================================
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== The Samba Team
======================================================================


----------------------------------------------------------------------
                   ==============================
                   Release Notes for Samba 4.24.3
                            May 26, 2026
                   ==============================


This is a security release in order to address the following defects:

o CVE-2026-1933:   Missing access checks on reparse point operations

                   On a share marked "read only = yes" and
                   on file handles opened R/O users can set
                   or delete the reparse point xattrs on files
                   that the user has write-access in the file
                   system for.

                   https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2026-1933.html


o CVE-2026-2340:   WORM vfs module does not block overwrites

                   The WORM (Write-Once, Read Many) vfs module
                   is supposed to lock write access to shared
                   files, so they cannot be altered after initial
                   writes. It was allowing files to be overwritten
                   by renaming a newly created file over a protected
                   file.

                   https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2026-2340.html


o CVE-2026-3012:   auto-enrolment GPO installing CA certificate over http
                   without verification

                   To bootstrap a certificate chain a domain member must
                   fetch a certificate without TLS. It was trusting HTTP
                   for this when a more secure encrypted LDAP channel
                   was also available.

                   https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2026-3012.html


o CVE-2026-3238:   Denial of service against AD DC WINS server

                   The WINS server component of the Active
                   Directory Domain controller code in Samba
                   is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference
                   and crash caused by a unauthenticated UDP
                   packet.

                   https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2026-3238.html


o CVE-2026-4408:   Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Samba DCE/RPC SAMR
                   server

                   Samba file servers and classic (non-AD) domain controllers
                   with samba-dcerpcd started as a system service and with a
                   "check password script" that has the %u substitution
                   character are vulnerable to a remote code execution.

                   https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2026-4408.html


o CVE-2026-4480:   Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Samba printing
                   subsystem

                   Samba print servers with a "print command"
                   that has the %J substitution character
                   are vulnerable to a Remote Code Execution.

                   https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2026-4480.html


Changes since 4.24.2
--------------------

o  Douglas Bagnall <douglas.bagnall@catalyst.net.nz>
   * BUG 15997: CVE-2026-2340
   * BUG 16003: CVE-2026-3012
   * BUG 16033: CVE-2026-4480
   * BUG 16034: CVE-2026-4408

o  Pavel Kohout <pavel@aisle.com>
   * BUG 15997: CVE-2026-2340

o  Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
   * BUG 15992: CVE-2026-1933
   * BUG 16012: CVE-2026-3238

o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
   * BUG 15992: CVE-2026-1933
   * BUG 16033: CVE-2026-4480
   * BUG 16034: CVE-2026-4408


#######################################
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#######################################

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feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
the problem then you will probably be ignored.  All bug reports should
be filed under the Samba 4.1 and newer product in the project's Bugzilla
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======================================================================
== Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
== The Samba Team
======================================================================


----------------------------------------------------------------------
                   ==============================
                   Release Notes for Samba 4.24.2
                            May 12, 2026
                   ==============================


This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.24 release series.


Changes since 4.24.1
--------------------

o  Vinit Agnihotri <vagnihot@redhat.com>
   * BUG 16038: Samba 4.24 with cups can't get queue and shows errors about
     fetch_share_cache_time

o  Thales Antunes de Oliveira Barretto <thales.barretto.git@gmail.com>
   * BUG 16043: Fix a directory file descriptor leak in vfs_glusterfs that
     caused      unbounded memory growth on the GlusterFS brick with
     persistent SMB2      connections.

o  Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org>
   * BUG 16030: Windows Offline Files fails with permission error when directory
     has the read‑only attribute set

o  Pavel Filipenský <pfilipensky@samba.org>
   * BUG 15991: samba not triggering mount of zfs snapshot in dataset
     .zfs/snapshots/<snapname> directory
   * BUG 15999: net ads join still fails with multiple DCs

o  Björn Jacke <bjacke@samba.org>
   * BUG 16076: samba-tool shows wrong format specifiers for timestamp
     attributes

o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
   * BUG 14638: restrict anonymous = 2 breaks RODC functionality
   * BUG 15973: smbpasswd can crash winbindd on an AD DC
   * BUG 15995: smbd does not cleanup on disconnect of the transport connection
     on lease break errors
   * BUG 16059: CVE-2026-40170: thirdparty ngtcp2 needs to be updated
   * BUG 16067: Require NTLMv2 session security on Windows makes trusts to Samba
     unusable
   * BUG 16073: Winbind can change Ownership Of / To A User Who has Homedir / In
     passwd

o  Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
   * BUG 15987: Winbind lsa_OpenPolicy() fails on lsa connection setup with:
     NT_STATUS_RPC_CANNOT_SUPPORT

o  Shachar Sharon <ssharon@redhat.com>
   * BUG 16068: CTDB read-only record handling contains use after free and
     resource leak bugs


#######################################
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#######################################

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feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
the problem then you will probably be ignored.  All bug reports should
be filed under the Samba 4.1 and newer product in the project's Bugzilla
database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).


======================================================================
== Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
== The Samba Team
======================================================================


----------------------------------------------------------------------
                   ==============================
                   Release Notes for Samba 4.24.1
                           April 17, 2026
                   ==============================


This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.24 release series.


Changes since 4.24.0
--------------------

o  Björn Jacke <bjacke@samba.org>
   * BUG 16057: autobuild fails if /proc/version contains trailing space

o  Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
   * BUG 16035: use after free in streams_xattr_connect()

o  Noel Power <noel.power@suse.com>
   * BUG 16042: rpc workers with long living clients grow server  memory keytab
   * BUG 16058: vfs_snapper failing to access or enumerate files in subfolders

o  Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
   * BUG 16040: Samba is not build with FORTIFY_SOURCE
   * BUG 16055: Fix tests with MIT Kerberos 1.22.x


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======================================================================
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== The Samba Team
======================================================================


----------------------------------------------------------------------
                   ==============================
                   Release Notes for Samba 4.24.0
                           March 18, 2026
                   ==============================


This is the first stable release of the Samba 4.24 release series.
Please read the release notes carefully before upgrading.


NEW FEATURES/CHANGES
====================

Authentication information audit support
----------------------------------------

There are some Active Directory attributes that are not secret, but
are relied on in some forms of authentication. Changes to these
attributes could indicate surreptitious activity. The
"dsdb_password_audit" and "dsdb_password_json_audit" debug classes now
log changes to the following attributes:

 * altSecurityIdentities
 * dNSHostName
 * msDS-AdditionalDnsHostName
 * msDS-KeyCredentialLink
 * servicePrincipalName

For the JSON logs, changes to these will be logged with the "action"
field set to "Auth info change".


vfs_streams_xattr can hold larger streams
-----------------------------------------

On Linux the size of a single extended attribute is limited to 65536
bytes of size. For some file systems, this is also the overall limit
of space for xattrs, but for example xfs can hold more than that 64k
of extended xattrs, although the individual xattr is still limited to
64k. Setting

streams_xattr:max xattrs per stream = 1

to a higher value than 1 will allow Samba to shard the stream to more
than one xattr. It has an artificial limit of 16 for a maximum stream
length of 1MB.


Support for remote password management (Entra ID SSPR, Keycloak)
----------------------------------------------------------------

When a system such as Entra ID or Keycloak wants to change a user's
password in its own database as well as in AD, it will use a password
reset, meaning it does not transmit the old password to the domain
controller. Normally a password reset avoids password history and age
checks, which would allow a cloud password change to bypass
on-premises password policies. To address this, a password reset using
the "policy hints" control should respect password policies, as if it
were an ordinary password change. Both Entra ID and Keycloak use this,
but until now Samba did not understand this control, and would reject
these reset requests.

Now Samba AD will recognise the policy hints control and enforce local
policy. This allows Microsoft Entra self-service password reset (SSPR)
to work, and for Keycloak to work with the "password policy hints
enabled" option.


Kerberos PKINIT KeyTrust logon support
--------------------------------------

Samba servers configured with the embedded heimdal KDC and running as an ADDC,
now support "Windows Hello for Business Key-Trust logons". This allows the
PKINIT authentication mechanism to be used with self-signed keys.

The samba-tool computer and user commands have a new "keytrust"
sub-command which allows for the setting and viewing of the public key
details for computer and user accounts. This stores the public key
details in msDS-KeyCredentialLink attribute of the account.


msDS-KeyCredentialLink validation
---------------------------------

Updates to the msDS-KeyCredentialLink attribute are validated against the
rules specified by MS-ADTS 3.1.1.5.3.1.1.6.

Kerberos PKINIT strong/flexible key mappings
--------------------------------------------

Samba servers configured with the embedded heimdal KDC and running as an ADDC
now support "Windows Strong and Flexible key mappings" as outlined in
Microsoft KB5014754: Certificate-based authentication changes on Windows domain
controllers.

The default enforcement mode ("full") allows only strong certificate
mappings. The smb.conf option

  strong certificate binding enforcement = compatibility

will allow weak mappings where the certificate is newer than the user
account. The option "none" will allow any mappings.

The mappings for an account should be placed in the altSecurityIdentities
attribute and follow the syntax documented in KB5014754.


Kerberos PKINIT SID extension
-----------------------------

PKINIT authentication now supports certificates containing an Object SID
extension (extension 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.25.2), this is considered to be a STRONG
mapping for KB5014754.

The computer and user samba-tool commands have a new sub-command
"generate-csr" to generate certificate signing requests.


KDC includes PAC by default
---------------------------

Samba will ignore the value provided by the client in "PA-PAC-REQUEST"
and always include a PAC in responses, unless "kdc always generate
pac" is set to "no".


KDC can insist clients request canonicalization
-----------------------------------------------

Canonicalization of principal client names is not mandatory in
Kerberos (per RFC4120), but must be requested by the client. In some
circumstances allows a client to deceive Active Directory member
servers (known as the "dollar ticket" attack).

The new configuration option "kdc require canonicalization" can be
used to require that clients request canonicalization; if they do not,
their AS_REQ requests will be rejected as if the account was unknown.

The default value is "no", for backward compatibility. Windows clients
will ask for canonicalization by default, so in Windows-heavy
environments it is safe and recommended to set this to "yes".

KDC can avoid potentially confusing canonicalization
----------------------------------------------------

Currently when the client does not request canonicalization, when the
KDC looks up a name and there is no match it will append a "$" to the
name and try again. An attacker who can create arbitrary machine
accounts can sometimes get tickets for Unix users by mimicking their
names (the "dollar ticket" attack).

The configuration option

  kdc name match implicit dollar without canonicalization = no

can be used to disable this behaviour for clients that do not request
canonicalization. Probably this only affects traditional Unix clients,
as Windows clients use canonicalization. If affected clients want a
ticket for a machine account, they will have to use the full name
including the dollar (e.g. "server$", not "server").

If the "kdc require canonicalization" option cannot be set to "yes"
(because some clients do not request canonicalization) setting this
option to "no" is a good alternative.


KDC provides Kerberos acceptors with canonical client names
-----------------------------------------------------------

By default the KDC will now send Kerberos services the canonicalized
name (the sAMAccountName from the PAC) rather than trusting the cname.

To return to the old behaviour, use

  krb5 acceptor report canonical client name = no

in the smb.conf.

This currently affects Heimdal KDC only, not MIT.


KDC recommended configuration:
-----------------------------
strong certificate binding enforcement                            full
kdc always include pac                                            yes
kdc require canonicalization                                      yes

If unable to use "kdc require canonicalization" = "yes", then
"kdc name match implicit dollar without implicit canonicalization" should be
set to "no" if possible.

samba tool
----------

Two new sub-commands have been added to the user and computer commands:

user|computer generate-csr
    Generate a Certificate signing request for an account containing the
    Object SID extension  (extension 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.25.2)

user|computer keytrust
   Add the public key details of a self signed certificate to an account.
   The command supports PEM and DER encoded public keys.


New AIO rate-limiting VFS module
--------------------------------
A new VFS stackable module has been introduced to implement rate-limiting for
asynchronous I/O operations. Administrators can now enforce throughput ceilings
by defining limits in either operations per second or bytes per second. The
module utilizes a token-based algorithm to calculate real-time I/O load; when
limits are exceeded, it dynamically injects millisecond delays into async
operations to maintain the defined threshold.


CephFS FSCrypt support for the VFS ceph_new module
--------------------------------------------------
The ceph_new VFS module can now make use of the FSCrypt feature recently added
to CephFS. This enhancement enables data and file name encryption on a per
share basis. A single CephFS file system may host a mix of encrypted and
unencrypted directories.

To obtain the encryption keys needed for FSCrypt the ceph_new module includes
support for the Keybridge protocol. Keybridge is an RPC protocol based on
Varlink that can retrieve keys from a local service via a UNIX socket. Users
can choose to develop a custom Keybridge implementation or use the existing
KMIP-compatible Keybridge server available as part of the sambacc project
(https://github.com/samba-in-kubernetes/sambacc).

Domain encryption types changed to AES by default
-------------------------------------------------

The default value of the smb.conf option ‘kdc default domain supported enctypes’
now corresponds to ‘aes128-cts-hmac-sha1-96 aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96’ (both AES
encryption types) if the domain functional level is 2008 or higher. This
addresses CVE-2026-20833.

REMOVED FEATURES
================


smb.conf changes
================

  Parameter Name                          Description     Default
  --------------                          -----------     -------
  strong certificate binding enforcement  New             full
  certificate backdating compensation     New             0
  kdc always include pac                  New             yes
  kdc require canonicalization            New             no
  kdc name match implicit dollar without canonicalization
                                          New             yes
  kdc default domain supported enctypes   New default     AES encryption types (if supported by domain)


CHANGES SINCE 4.24.0rc3
=======================

o  Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
   * BUG 16019: incorrect behavior on rpcclient enumport with rpcd_spoolss

o  Gary Lockyer <gary@catalyst.net.nz>
   * BUG 16001: altSecurityIdentities X509 issuer DN order is reversed

o  Avan Thakkar <athakkar@redhat.com>
   * BUG 16000: vfs_aio_ratelimit: introduce burst-aware and persistent state
     model


CHANGES SINCE 4.24.0rc2
=======================

o  Douglas Bagnall <douglas.bagnall@catalyst.net.nz>
   * BUG 15990: No function _python_sysroot defined

o  Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org>
   * BUG 15978: leases torture test flappy
   * BUG 15984: smbd: in contend_dirleases() don't bother checking when not
     enabled

o  Pavel Filipenský <pfilipensky@samba.org>
   * BUG 15993: 'net ads kerberos kinit' should use also default ccache name
     from krb5.conf

o  Noel Power <noel.power@suse.com>
   * BUG 15789: "use-kerberos=desired" broken

o  Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
   * BUG 15975: source3/libads/kerberos.c sets wrong failure for negative
     connection cache

o  Peter Schwenke <pschwenke@ddn.com>
   * BUG 15938: CTDB's statd_callout fails on sm-notify
   * BUG 15939: CTDB statd_callout_notify notifies unnecessary clients and loses
     their state

o  Martin Schwenke <mschwenke@ddn.com>
   * BUG 15939: CTDB statd_callout_notify notifies unnecessary clients and loses
     their state

o  Jennifer Sutton <jennifersutton@catalyst.net.nz>
   * BUG 15998: Backport domain default AES encryption types to 4.24


CHANGES SINCE 4.24.0rc1
=======================

o  Samuel Cabrero <scabrero@samba.org>
   * BUG 15979: possible memory leak  on rpc_spoolss

o  Pavel Filipenský <pfilipensky@samba.org>
   * BUG 15972: Winbind group resolution failure

o  Noel Power <noel.power@suse.com>
   * BUG 15979: possible memory leak  on rpc_spoolss

o  Martin Schwenke <mschwenke@ddn.com>
   * BUG 15977: ctdbd socket documentation is wrong

o  Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
   * BUG 15976: time_t related build failure on 32bit arch in 4.24.0rc1


KNOWN ISSUES
============

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.24#Release_blocking_bugs


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feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
the problem then you will probably be ignored.  All bug reports should
be filed under the Samba 4.1 and newer product in the project's Bugzilla
database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).


======================================================================
== Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
== The Samba Team
======================================================================
