diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c7101f3a..988de944 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+fuzz/
 .pytest_cache
 compile
 .pytest_cache
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fc5c9b75..f9c9f828 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 - better early shutdown in readers
 - don't attempt to save large XMP to jpeg [tnextday]
 - always fetch HEIC metadata from the main image [zhoux2016]
+- fix loop in malformed ppm [Kyle-Kyle]
 
 24/5/19 started 8.8.1
 - improve realpath() use on older libc
diff --git a/libvips/foreign/ppm.c b/libvips/foreign/ppm.c
index a5022e78..d5d1a626 100644
--- a/libvips/foreign/ppm.c
+++ b/libvips/foreign/ppm.c
@@ -89,7 +89,10 @@
 static void 
 skip_line( FILE *fp )
 {
-        while( vips__fgetc( fp ) != '\n' )
+	int ch;
+
+        while( (ch = vips__fgetc( fp )) != '\n' && 
+		ch != EOF )
 		;
 }