diff --git a/Tests/images/one_strip.tif b/Tests/images/one_strip.tif
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6ed41e500
Binary files /dev/null and b/Tests/images/one_strip.tif differ
diff --git a/Tests/test_file_libtiff.py b/Tests/test_file_libtiff.py
index d6f4900cd..146d94119 100644
--- a/Tests/test_file_libtiff.py
+++ b/Tests/test_file_libtiff.py
@@ -869,6 +869,11 @@ class TestFileLibTiff(LibTiffTestCase):
             im.load()
         assert im.size == (950, 975)
 
+    def test_one_strip(self):
+        with Image.open("Tests/images/one_strip.tif") as im:
+            im.load()
+        assert im.size == (1728, 2344)
+
     def test_orientation(self):
         with Image.open("Tests/images/g4_orientation_1.tif") as base_im:
             for i in range(2, 9):
diff --git a/src/libImaging/TiffDecode.c b/src/libImaging/TiffDecode.c
index 746994da3..ed9c2949f 100644
--- a/src/libImaging/TiffDecode.c
+++ b/src/libImaging/TiffDecode.c
@@ -328,7 +328,10 @@ _decodeStrip(Imaging im, ImagingCodecState state, TIFF *tiff) {
     int ret;
 
     ret = TIFFGetField(tiff, TIFFTAG_ROWSPERSTRIP, &rows_per_strip);
-    if (ret != 1) {
+    if (
+      ret != 1 ||
+      rows_per_strip == 4294967295  // 2 ** 32 - 1, the default
+    ) {
         rows_per_strip = state->ysize;
     }
     TRACE(("RowsPerStrip: %u \n", rows_per_strip));
@@ -564,7 +567,7 @@ ImagingLibTiffDecode(
             for (x = state->xoff; x < state->xsize; x += tile_width) {
                 /* Sanity Check. Apparently in some cases, the TiffReadRGBA* functions
                    have a different view of the size of the tiff than we're getting from
-                   other functions. So, we need to check here. 
+                   other functions. So, we need to check here.
                 */
                 if (!TIFFCheckTile(tiff, x, y, 0, 0)) {
                     TRACE(("Check Tile Error, Tile at %dx%d\n", x, y));