Highlights
Other: 1 prior fix. Scrutinize any change in this area.
src/validation.cc: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.
0 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns
The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.
Other: Incomplete boundary validation inside the UTF-8 decoding state machine can allow ill-formed byte sequences to bypass validation checks, potentially leading to downstream parser confusion or security bypasses in applications relying on the validator.