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Debian: 2194-1: libvirt: insufficient checks

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that libvirt, a library for interfacing with different virtualization systems, did not properly check for read-only connections. This allowed a local attacker to perform a denial of service (crash) or possibly escalate privileges. [More...]

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VIRT-XML-VALIDATE(1)					      Virtualization Support					      VIRT-XML-VALIDATE(1)

NAME
virt-xml-validate - validate libvirt XML files against a schema SYNOPSIS
virt-xml-validate XML-FILE [SCHEMA-NAME] DESCRIPTION
Validates a libvirt XML for compliance with the published schema. The first compulsory argument is the path to the XML file to be validated. The optional second argument is the name of the schema to validate against. If omitted, the schema name will be inferred from the name of the root element in the XML document. Valid schema names currently include "domain" The schema for the XML format used by guest domains configuration "network" The schema for the XML format used by virtual network configuration "storagepool" The schema for the XML format used by storage pool configuration "storagevol" The schema for the XML format used by storage volume descriptions "nodedev" The schema for the XML format used by node device descriptions "capability" The schema for the XML format used to declare driver capabilities EXIT STATUS
Upon successful validation, an exit status of 0 will be set. Upon failure a non-zero status will be set. AUTHOR
Daniel P.Berrange BUGS
Report any bugs discovered to the libvirt community via the mailing list "http://libvirt.org/contact.html" or bug tracker "http://libvirt.org/bugs.html". Alternatively report bugs to your software distributor / vendor. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009-2010 by Red Hat, Inc. Copyright (C) 2009 by Daniel P. Berrange LICENSE
virt-xml-validate is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL v2+. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SEE ALSO
virsh(1), online XML format descriptions "http://libvirt.org/format.html" libvirt-0.8.1 2010-07-05 VIRT-XML-VALIDATE(1)