diff --git a/Lib/asyncio/base_events.py b/Lib/asyncio/base_events.py
index 0930ef403c6c4b..77c70aaa7b986e 100644
--- a/Lib/asyncio/base_events.py
+++ b/Lib/asyncio/base_events.py
@@ -381,6 +381,7 @@ async def serve_forever(self):
         except exceptions.CancelledError:
             try:
                 self.close()
+                self.close_clients()
                 await self.wait_closed()
             finally:
                 raise
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_server.py b/Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_server.py
index 5bd0f7e2af4f84..581ea47d2dec97 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_server.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_server.py
@@ -266,6 +266,38 @@ async def serve(rd, wr):
         await asyncio.sleep(0)
         self.assertTrue(task.done())
 
+    async def test_close_with_hanging_client(self):
+        # Synchronize server cancellation only after the socket connection is
+        # accepted and this event is set
+        conn_event = asyncio.Event()
+        class Proto(asyncio.Protocol):
+            def connection_made(self, transport):
+                conn_event.set()
+
+        loop = asyncio.get_running_loop()
+        srv = await loop.create_server(Proto, socket_helper.HOSTv4, 0)
+
+        # Start the server
+        serve_forever_task = asyncio.create_task(srv.serve_forever())
+        await asyncio.sleep(0)
+
+        # Create a connection to server
+        addr = srv.sockets[0].getsockname()
+        sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
+        sock.connect(addr)
+        self.addCleanup(sock.close)
+
+        # Send a CancelledError into the server to emulate a Ctrl+C
+        # KeyboardInterrupt whilst the server is handling a hanging client
+        await conn_event.wait()
+        serve_forever_task.cancel()
+
+        # Ensure the client is closed within a timeout
+        async with asyncio.timeout(0.5):
+            await srv.wait_closed()
+
+        self.assertFalse(srv.is_serving())
+
 
 # Test the various corner cases of Unix server socket removal
 class UnixServerCleanupTests(unittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-03-11-10-25-32.gh-issue-123720.TauFRx.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-03-11-10-25-32.gh-issue-123720.TauFRx.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..04e6a377dd816c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-03-11-10-25-32.gh-issue-123720.TauFRx.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+asyncio: Fix :func:`asyncio.Server.serve_forever` shutdown regression. Since
+3.12, cancelling ``serve_forever()`` could hang waiting for a handler blocked
+on a read from a client that never closed (effectively requiring two
+interrupts to stop); the shutdown sequence now ensures client streams are
+closed so ``serve_forever()`` exits promptly and handlers observe EOF.
diff --git a/Modules/_xxtestfuzz/fuzzer.c b/Modules/_xxtestfuzz/fuzzer.c
index 6cb11562476e40..02afb01d3731fb 100644
--- a/Modules/_xxtestfuzz/fuzzer.c
+++ b/Modules/_xxtestfuzz/fuzzer.c
@@ -38,23 +38,18 @@ static int fuzz_builtin_float(const char* data, size_t size) {
 static int fuzz_builtin_int(const char* data, size_t size) {
     /* Ignore test cases with very long ints to avoid timeouts
        int("9" * 1000000) is not a very interesting test caase */
-    if (size > MAX_INT_TEST_SIZE) {
+    if (size < 1 || size > MAX_INT_TEST_SIZE) {
         return 0;
     }
-    /* Pick a random valid base. (When the fuzzed function takes extra
-       parameters, it's somewhat normal to hash the input to generate those
-       parameters. We want to exercise all code paths, so we do so here.) */
-    int base = Py_HashBuffer(data, size) % 37;
+    // Use the first byte to pick a base
+    int base = ((unsigned char) data[0]) % 37;
     if (base == 1) {
         // 1 is the only number between 0 and 36 that is not a valid base.
         base = 0;
     }
-    if (base == -1) {
-        return 0;  // An error occurred, bail early.
-    }
-    if (base < 0) {
-        base = -base;
-    }
+
+    data += 1;
+    size -= 1;
 
     PyObject* s = PyUnicode_FromStringAndSize(data, size);
     if (s == NULL) {