diff --git a/src/cmd/go/testdata/script/test_fuzz_cgo.txt b/src/cmd/go/testdata/script/test_fuzz_cgo.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1a0487700d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/cmd/go/testdata/script/test_fuzz_cgo.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+[!fuzz] skip
+[!cgo] skip
+[short] skip
+env GOCACHE=$WORK/cache
+
+# Test that fuzzing works with cgo (issue 65169)
+
+go test -fuzz=. -fuzztime=1x
+stdout ok
+! stdout FAIL
+
+-- go.mod --
+module example.com/p
+
+go 1.20
+-- c.go --
+package p
+
+import "C"
+-- c_test.go --
+package p
+
+import "testing"
+
+func Fuzz(f *testing.F) {
+	f.Add(0)
+	f.Fuzz(func(t *testing.T, x int) {})
+}
diff --git a/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/data.go b/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/data.go
index 0550f07d5c..1104d0ea79 100644
--- a/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/data.go
+++ b/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/data.go
@@ -1896,7 +1896,6 @@ func (state *dodataState) allocateDataSections(ctxt *Link) {
 	sect = state.allocateNamedSectionAndAssignSyms(&Segdata, ".noptrbss", sym.SNOPTRBSS, sym.Sxxx, 06)
 	ldr.SetSymSect(ldr.LookupOrCreateSym("runtime.noptrbss", 0), sect)
 	ldr.SetSymSect(ldr.LookupOrCreateSym("runtime.enoptrbss", 0), sect)
-	ldr.SetSymSect(ldr.LookupOrCreateSym("runtime.end", 0), sect)
 
 	// Code coverage counters are assigned to the .noptrbss section.
 	// We assign them in a separate pass so that they stay aggregated
@@ -1916,6 +1915,9 @@ func (state *dodataState) allocateDataSections(ctxt *Link) {
 		ldr.SetSymSect(ldr.LookupOrCreateSym("internal/fuzz._ecounters", 0), sect)
 	}
 
+	// Assign runtime.end to the last section of data segment.
+	ldr.SetSymSect(ldr.LookupOrCreateSym("runtime.end", 0), Segdata.Sections[len(Segdata.Sections)-1])
+
 	if len(state.data[sym.STLSBSS]) > 0 {
 		var sect *sym.Section
 		// FIXME: not clear why it is sometimes necessary to suppress .tbss section creation.