Stefan Berger <stef...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> It depends on what one defends against. If a jail-break succeeds and 
> open() is disabled, then that attack surfaces was effectively reduced. 
> It's hard to say whether opening files within libvirt could then allow 
> new exploits.

Well, in the very least, libvirt is doing the open() as root whereas
QEMU does it as an unprivileged user.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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>      Stefan

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