GMS-2021-11: ReDoS in LDAP schema parser

https://github.com/python-ldap/python-ldap/issues/424

Impact

The LDAP schema parser of python-ldap are vulnerable to a regular expression denial-of-service attack. The issue affects clients that use ldap.schema package to parse LDAP schema definitions from an untrusted source.

Patches

The upcoming release of python-ldap will contain a workaround to prevent ReDoS attacks. The schema parser refuses schema definitions with an excessive amount of backslashes.

Workarounds

As a workaround, users can check input for excessive amount of backslashes in schemas. More than a dozen backslashes per line are atypical.

References

CWE-1333

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