
A Packaging Patch Has Been Corrupting Valkey's Memory Accounting Since 2017
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Codex found an old Valkey bug affecting Debian’s packages and every official Valkey .deb. One line in a packaging patch releases a glibc allocation with Valkey’s own deallocator, so the server either segfaults or silently stops accepting writes until you restart it.
