PYSEC-2026-1846 python-ldap is Vulnerable to Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output and Improper Null Termination

Summary ldap.dn.escapednchars escapes \x00 incorrectly by emitting a backslash followed by a literal NUL byte instead of the RFC-4514 hex form \00. Any application that uses this helper to construct DNs from untrusted input can be made to consistently fail before a request is sent to the LDAP...