Bug in LDB's handling of escaped characters in DNs
simo
idra at samba.org
Fri Jan 6 15:23:13 GMT 2006
On mer, 2006-01-04 at 00:58 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While debugging a problem in the upgrade script this evening, I
> couldn't get LDB to correctly parse a DN that contains escaped
> characters. I also couldn't find any testcases that contained
> DNs with escaped characters.
>
> For example:
>
> ./bin/ldbadd -H foo.ldb <<EOF
> dn: foo=bar\;,blah=blie
> foo: bar;
> EOF
> Error: Unable to parse dn 'foo=bar\;,blah=blie'
> Added 0 records with 0 failures
Hi Jelmer, it's a bug.
Escaping in LDAP allows only hexadecimal values after '\' exctept for
some special values ( and ; is one of them ).
RFC 2253 has the details.
I'll look into this asap.
Simo.
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