Fuzz failure in release-2.0

[cbandy]

I encountered these failures when running go test -bench . -fuzz . using go version go1.25.0 linux/amd64:

--- FAIL: FuzzCreatePatch (2.09s)
    --- FAIL: FuzzCreatePatch (0.00s)
        fuzz_test.go:28: Test: {} -> {}0
        fuzz_test.go:51: Applying patch []
        fuzz_test.go:58: 
                Error Trace:    fuzz_test.go:58
                                                        fuzz_test.go:23
                                                        value.go:581
                                                        value.go:365
                                                        fuzz.go:341
                Error:          Expected value ('{}0') is not valid json.
                                JSON parsing error: 'invalid character '0' after top-level value'
                Test:           FuzzCreatePatch
    
    Failing input written to testdata/fuzz/FuzzCreatePatch/5b941f188aa6a6ec
    To re-run:
    go test -run=FuzzCreatePatch/5b941f188aa6a6ec
FAIL

--- FAIL: FuzzCreatePatch (1.27s)                                                              
    --- FAIL: FuzzCreatePatch (0.00s)                                                          
        fuzz_test.go:28: Test: {"spec":{"0000000000000000":[]}} -> {}0                                                                                                                        
        fuzz_test.go:51: Applying patch [{"op":"remove","path":"/spec"}]
        fuzz_test.go:58:                                                                       
                Error Trace:    fuzz_test.go:58                                                                                                                                               
                                                        fuzz_test.go:23
                                                        value.go:581    
                                                        value.go:365
                                                        fuzz.go:341
                Error:          Expected value ('{}0') is not valid json.
                                JSON parsing error: 'invalid character '0' after top-level value'
                Test:           FuzzCreatePatch                                                                                                                                               
                                                                                               
    Failing input written to testdata/fuzz/FuzzCreatePatch/bd27409d3e9ac31c
    To re-run:
    go test -run=FuzzCreatePatch/bd27409d3e9ac31c
FAIL

$ cat testdata/fuzz/FuzzCreatePatch/5b941f188aa6a6ec
go test fuzz v1
[]byte("{}")
[]byte("{}0")

$ cat testdata/fuzz/FuzzCreatePatch/bd27409d3e9ac31c 
go test fuzz v1
[]byte("{\"spec\":{\"0000000000000000\":[]}}")
[]byte("{}0")