GO-2026-5970

Infinite loop on invalid input in golang.org/x/text

At a glance

Published: 2026-07-14 17:29 UTC
Updated: 2026-09-23 10:41 UTC
CVE: CVE-2026-56852

Description

A norm.Iter can enter an infinite loop when handling input containing invalid UTF-8 bytes.

Affected packages

Package	Versions
Go · golang.org/x/text	introduced 0, fixed 0.39.0

References

https://go.dev/issue/80142 REPORT
https://go.dev/cl/794100 FIX

Sources

Source	Licence
OSV.dev	CC-BY 4.0 — Go Vulnerability Database