diff --git a/libtiff/tif_ojpeg.c b/libtiff/tif_ojpeg.c
index 83d2f5c6..159e9250 100644
--- a/libtiff/tif_ojpeg.c
+++ b/libtiff/tif_ojpeg.c
@@ -1241,7 +1241,13 @@ OJPEGWriteHeaderInfo(TIFF* tif)
 			sp->subsampling_convert_ybuflen=sp->subsampling_convert_ylinelen*sp->subsampling_convert_ylines;
 			sp->subsampling_convert_cbuflen=sp->subsampling_convert_clinelen*sp->subsampling_convert_clines;
 			sp->subsampling_convert_ycbcrbuflen=sp->subsampling_convert_ybuflen+2*sp->subsampling_convert_cbuflen;
-			sp->subsampling_convert_ycbcrbuf=_TIFFmalloc(sp->subsampling_convert_ycbcrbuflen);
+                        /* The calloc is not normally necessary, except in some edge/broken cases */
+                        /* for example for a tiled image of height 1 with a tile height of 1 and subsampling_hor=subsampling_ver=2 */
+                        /* In that case, libjpeg will only fill the 8 first lines of the 16 lines */
+                        /* See https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=16844 */
+                        /* Even if this case is allowed (?), its handling is broken because OJPEGPreDecode() should also likely */
+                        /* reset subsampling_convert_state to 0 when changing tile. */
+			sp->subsampling_convert_ycbcrbuf=_TIFFcalloc(1, sp->subsampling_convert_ycbcrbuflen);
 			if (sp->subsampling_convert_ycbcrbuf==0)
 			{
 				TIFFErrorExt(tif->tif_clientdata,module,"Out of memory");