CVE-2026-56852 (GCVE-0-2026-56852)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-21 19:18 – Updated: 2026-07-21 19:18
VLAI
Title
Infinite loop on invalid input in golang.org/x/text
Summary
A norm.Iter can enter an infinite loop when handling input containing invalid UTF-8 bytes.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Assigner
Go
References
Impacted products
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