diff --git a/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/CCITTFaxDecoderStream.java b/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/CCITTFaxDecoderStream.java
index 602507d7..16ac23b8 100644
--- a/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/CCITTFaxDecoderStream.java
+++ b/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/CCITTFaxDecoderStream.java
@@ -221,7 +221,11 @@ final class CCITTFaxDecoderStream extends FilterInputStream {
     }
 
     private int getNextChangingElement(final int a0, final boolean white) throws IOException {
-        int start = (lastChangingElement & 0xFFFF_FFFC) + (white ? 0 : 1);
+        int start = (lastChangingElement & 0xFFFF_FFFE) + (white ? 0 : 1);
+        if (start > 2) {
+            start -= 2;
+        }
+
         if (a0 == 0) {
             return start;
         }
diff --git a/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/test/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageReaderTest.java b/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/test/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageReaderTest.java
index 075c7620..bfbb46ab 100644
--- a/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/test/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageReaderTest.java
+++ b/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/test/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageReaderTest.java
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ public class TIFFImageReaderTest extends ImageReaderAbstractTest<TIFFImageReader
                 new TestData(getClassLoaderResource("/tiff/ccitt/group4.tif"), new Dimension(6, 4)), // B/W, CCITT T6 1D
                 new TestData(getClassLoaderResource("/tiff/ccitt_tolessrows.tif"), new Dimension(6, 6)), // CCITT, metadata claiming 6 rows, stream contains only 4
                 new TestData(getClassLoaderResource("/tiff/fivepages-scan-causingerrors.tif"), new Dimension(2480, 3518)), // B/W, CCITT T4
+                new TestData(getClassLoaderResource("/tiff/CCITTgetNextChangingElement.tif"), new Dimension(2402,195)),
                 // CIELab
                 new TestData(getClassLoaderResource("/tiff/ColorCheckerCalculator.tif"), new Dimension(798, 546)), // CIELab 8 bit/sample
                 // Gray
diff --git a/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/test/resources/tiff/CCITTgetNextChangingElement.tif b/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/test/resources/tiff/CCITTgetNextChangingElement.tif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2422087a
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