diff --git a/docs/news.html.in b/docs/news.html.in
index aa4fd418e7..56c03b35c8 100644
--- a/docs/news.html.in
+++ b/docs/news.html.in
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@
         <ul>
           <li>vz: Fix migration in P2P mode
           </li>
+          <li>Forbid newline character in names of some libvirt objects.
+          </li>
         </ul>
       </li>
     </ul>
diff --git a/src/storage/storage_driver.c b/src/storage/storage_driver.c
index 4f990f4c48..9900596572 100644
--- a/src/storage/storage_driver.c
+++ b/src/storage/storage_driver.c
@@ -780,6 +780,9 @@ storagePoolDefineXML(virConnectPtr conn,
     if (!(def = virStoragePoolDefParseString(xml)))
         goto cleanup;
 
+    if (virXMLCheckIllegalChars("name", def->name, "\n") < 0)
+        goto cleanup;
+
     if (virStoragePoolDefineXMLEnsureACL(conn, def) < 0)
         goto cleanup;