diff --git a/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageReader.java b/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageReader.java
index b52d977b..c77fe49d 100755
--- a/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageReader.java
+++ b/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/tiff/TIFFImageReader.java
@@ -1497,7 +1497,7 @@ public class TIFFImageReader extends ImageReaderBase {
             case TIFFBaseline.COMPRESSION_PACKBITS:
                 return new DecoderStream(stream, new PackBitsDecoder(), 1024);
             case TIFFExtension.COMPRESSION_LZW:
-                return new DecoderStream(stream, LZWDecoder.create(LZWDecoder.isOldBitReversedStream(stream)), width * bands);
+                return new DecoderStream(stream, LZWDecoder.create(LZWDecoder.isOldBitReversedStream(stream)), Math.max(width * bands, 1024));
             case TIFFExtension.COMPRESSION_ZLIB:
                 // TIFFphotoshop.pdf (aka TIFF specification, supplement 2) says ZLIB (8) and DEFLATE (32946) algorithms are identical
             case TIFFExtension.COMPRESSION_DEFLATE:
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 a6cd4b47..6d00c633 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
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ public class TIFFImageReaderTest extends ImageReaderAbstractTest<TIFFImageReader
                 new TestData(getClassLoaderResource("/tiff/general-cmm-error.tif"), new Dimension(1181, 860)), // RGB, LZW compression with broken/incompatible ICC profile
                 new TestData(getClassLoaderResource("/tiff/lzw-rgba-padded-icc.tif"), new Dimension(19, 11)), // RGBA, LZW compression with padded ICC profile
                 new TestData(getClassLoaderResource("/tiff/lzw-rgba-4444.tif"), new Dimension(64, 64)), // RGBA, LZW compression with UINT 4/4/4/4 + gray 2/2
+                new TestData(getClassLoaderResource("/tiff/lzw-buffer-overflow.tif"), new Dimension(5, 49)), // RGBA, LZW compression, will throw IOOBE if small buffer
                 // CCITT
                 new TestData(getClassLoaderResource("/tiff/ccitt/group3_1d.tif"), new Dimension(6, 4)), // B/W, CCITT T4 1D
                 new TestData(getClassLoaderResource("/tiff/ccitt/group3_1d_fill.tif"), new Dimension(6, 4)), // B/W, CCITT T4 1D
diff --git a/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/test/resources/tiff/lzw-buffer-overflow.tif b/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/test/resources/tiff/lzw-buffer-overflow.tif
new file mode 100644
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