diff --git a/src/java.desktop/share/classes/com/sun/imageio/plugins/png/PNGImageReader.java b/src/java.desktop/share/classes/com/sun/imageio/plugins/png/PNGImageReader.java
index fc58a566148..7a51d218fb3 100644
--- a/src/java.desktop/share/classes/com/sun/imageio/plugins/png/PNGImageReader.java
+++ b/src/java.desktop/share/classes/com/sun/imageio/plugins/png/PNGImageReader.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2000, 2021, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2000, 2025, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ public class PNGImageReader extends ImageReader {
     static final int tRNS_TYPE = 0x74524e53;
     static final int zTXt_TYPE = 0x7a545874;
 
+    static final int MAX_INFLATED_TEXT_LENGTH = 262144;
     static final int PNG_COLOR_GRAY = 0;
     static final int PNG_COLOR_RGB = 2;
     static final int PNG_COLOR_PALETTE = 3;
@@ -661,7 +662,7 @@ private void parse_tRNS_chunk(int chunkLength) throws IOException {
     private static byte[] inflate(byte[] b) throws IOException {
         InputStream bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(b);
         try (InputStream iis = new InflaterInputStream(bais)) {
-            return iis.readAllBytes();
+            return iis.readNBytes(MAX_INFLATED_TEXT_LENGTH);
         }
     }