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 4cf86840..075c7620 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
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ public class TIFFImageReaderTest extends ImageReaderAbstractTest<TIFFImageReader
                 new TestData(getClassLoaderResource("/tiff/ccitt/group3_2d_fill.tif"), new Dimension(6, 4)), // B/W, CCITT T4 2D
                 new TestData(getClassLoaderResource("/tiff/ccitt/group3_2d_lsb2msb.tif"), new Dimension(6, 4)), // B/W, CCITT T4 2D, LSB
                 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
                 // CIELab
                 new TestData(getClassLoaderResource("/tiff/ColorCheckerCalculator.tif"), new Dimension(798, 546)), // CIELab 8 bit/sample
diff --git a/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/test/resources/tiff/ccitt_tolessrows.tif b/imageio/imageio-tiff/src/test/resources/tiff/ccitt_tolessrows.tif
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