diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/dtschema/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/dtschema/default.nix
index 5944a7760841..1e890aba3309 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/dtschema/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/dtschema/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-{ lib
+{ stdenv
+, lib
 , buildPythonPackage
 , fetchFromGitHub
 , jsonschema
@@ -54,6 +55,14 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     changelog = "https://github.com/devicetree-org/dt-schema/releases/tag/v${version}";
     license = with licenses; [ bsd2 /* or */ gpl2Only ];
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ sorki ];
+
+    broken = (
+      # Library not loaded: @rpath/libfdt.1.dylib
+      stdenv.isDarwin ||
+
+      # see https://github.com/devicetree-org/dt-schema/issues/108
+      versionAtLeast jsonschema.version "4.18"
+    );
   };
 }
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/dt-schema/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/dt-schema/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5736d301b32d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/dt-schema/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+{ lib
+, python3
+}:
+
+let python = python3.override {
+  packageOverrides = self: super: {
+    # see https://github.com/devicetree-org/dt-schema/issues/108
+    jsonschema = super.jsonschema.overridePythonAttrs (old: rec {
+      version = "4.17.3";
+      disabled = self.pythonOlder "3.7";
+
+      src = old.src.override {
+        inherit version;
+        hash = "sha256-D4ZEN6uLYHa6ZwdFPvj5imoNUSqA6T+KvbZ29zfstg0=";
+      };
+
+      propagatedBuildInputs = with self; ([
+        attrs
+        pyrsistent
+      ] ++ lib.optionals (pythonOlder "3.8") [
+        importlib-metadata
+        typing-extensions
+      ] ++ lib.optionals (pythonOlder "3.9") [
+        importlib-resources
+        pkgutil-resolve-name
+      ]);
+    });
+  };
+}; in python.pkgs.toPythonApplication python.pkgs.dtschema
+
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 0798975d5ec8..89b1669ff259 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7409,7 +7409,7 @@ with pkgs;
 
   dtc = callPackage ../development/compilers/dtc { };
 
-  dt-schema = with python3Packages; toPythonApplication dtschema;
+  dt-schema = callPackage ../development/tools/dt-schema { };
 
   dub = callPackage ../development/tools/build-managers/dub { };