Crash on HexStringToBytes when opening the project

Reproduction steps:
1. Open the attached “CrashRepro” project

Expected result: The project opens
Actual result: Unity Editor crashes

Reproducible with: 2020.3.44f1, 2021.3.17f1, 2022.2.3f1, 2023.1.0a26

Reproducible on: Windows 11 Pro 22H2, Ubuntu 20.04

First lines of the stack trace from crash.dmp:

[00] HexStringToBytes
[01] YAMLRead::TransferTypelessData
[02] Texture2D::Transfer<YAMLRead>
[03] !Unknown!::TransferBase
[04] Texture2D::VirtualRedirectTransfer
[05] SerializedFile::ReadObject

Note: Editor.log is missing stack trace information