Debian Security Advisory DSA 2688-1 (libxres - several vulnerabilities)

Summary
Ilja van Sprundel of IOActive discovered several security issues in multiple components of the X.org graphics stack and the related libraries: Various integer overflows, sign handling errors in integer conversions, buffer overflows, memory corruption and missing input sanitising may lead to privilege escalation or denial of service.
Solution
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2:1.0.4-1+squeeze. For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2:1.0.6-1+deb7u1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2:1.0.6-1+deb7u1. We recommend that you upgrade your libxres packages.
Insight
libXres provides an X Window System client interface to the 'Resource' extension to the X protocol.
Affected
libxres on Debian Linux
Detection
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
References