diff --git a/libavformat/matroskaenc.c b/libavformat/matroskaenc.c
index 88f6c647b9..d19646c1e4 100644
--- a/libavformat/matroskaenc.c
+++ b/libavformat/matroskaenc.c
@@ -910,7 +910,7 @@ static int mkv_write_video_color(AVIOContext *pb, AVCodecParameters *par, AVStre
 
     colorinfo_size = avio_close_dyn_buf(dyn_cp, &colorinfo_ptr);
     if (colorinfo_size) {
-        ebml_master colorinfo = start_ebml_master(pb, MATROSKA_ID_VIDEOCOLOR, 0);
+        ebml_master colorinfo = start_ebml_master(pb, MATROSKA_ID_VIDEOCOLOR, colorinfo_size);
         avio_write(pb, colorinfo_ptr, colorinfo_size);
         end_ebml_master(pb, colorinfo);
     }
diff --git a/tests/fate/matroska.mak b/tests/fate/matroska.mak
index f131f2e8eb..48b710c26c 100644
--- a/tests/fate/matroska.mak
+++ b/tests/fate/matroska.mak
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 FATE_MATROSKA-$(call DEMMUX, MATROSKA, MATROSKA) += fate-matroska-remux
 fate-matroska-remux: CMD = md5 -i $(TARGET_SAMPLES)/vp9-test-vectors/vp90-2-2pass-akiyo.webm -color_trc 4 -c:v copy -fflags +bitexact -strict -2 -f matroska
 fate-matroska-remux: CMP = oneline
-fate-matroska-remux: REF = 9b8398b42804ba12c39d2f47299a0996
+fate-matroska-remux: REF = 1ed49a4f2b6790357fac268938357353
 
 FATE_MATROSKA_FFPROBE-$(call ALLYES, MATROSKA_DEMUXER) += fate-matroska-spherical-mono
 fate-matroska-spherical-mono: CMD = run ffprobe$(PROGSSUF)$(EXESUF) -show_entries stream_side_data_list -select_streams v -v 0 $(TARGET_SAMPLES)/mkv/spherical.mkv