diff --git a/libavformat/wavdec.c b/libavformat/wavdec.c
index 602ce97530..81dbc9f16e 100644
--- a/libavformat/wavdec.c
+++ b/libavformat/wavdec.c
@@ -841,6 +841,8 @@ static int w64_read_header(AVFormatContext *s)
                 chunk_key[4] = 0;
                 avio_read(pb, chunk_key, 4);
                 chunk_size = avio_rl32(pb);
+                if (chunk_size == UINT32_MAX)
+                    return AVERROR_INVALIDDATA;
 
                 value = av_mallocz(chunk_size + 1);
                 if (!value)