diff --git a/pngrutil.c b/pngrutil.c
index 4ef05fe..f6f0864 100644
--- a/pngrutil.c
+++ b/pngrutil.c
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ void /* PRIVATE */
 png_handle_PLTE(png_structp png_ptr, png_infop info_ptr, png_uint_32 length)
 {
    png_color palette[PNG_MAX_PALETTE_LENGTH];
-   int num, i;
+   int max_palette_length, num, i;
 #ifdef PNG_POINTER_INDEXING_SUPPORTED
    png_colorp pal_ptr;
 #endif
@@ -648,9 +648,21 @@ png_handle_PLTE(png_structp png_ptr, png_infop info_ptr, png_uint_32 length)
          png_error(png_ptr, "Invalid palette chunk");
       }
    }
-
+   /* The cast is safe because 'length' is less than 3*PNG_MAX_PALETTE_LENGTH */
    num = (int)length / 3;
 
+   /* If the palette has 256 or fewer entries but is too large for the bit
+    * depth, we don't issue an error, to preserve the behavior of previous
+    * libpng versions. We silently truncate the unused extra palette entries
+    * here.
+    */
+   if (png_ptr->color_type == PNG_COLOR_TYPE_PALETTE)
+      max_palette_length = (1 << png_ptr->bit_depth);
+   else
+      max_palette_length = PNG_MAX_PALETTE_LENGTH;
+   if (num > max_palette_length)
+      num = max_palette_length;
+
 #ifdef PNG_POINTER_INDEXING_SUPPORTED
    for (i = 0, pal_ptr = palette; i < num; i++, pal_ptr++)
    {
@@ -683,7 +695,7 @@ png_handle_PLTE(png_structp png_ptr, png_infop info_ptr, png_uint_32 length)
    if (png_ptr->color_type == PNG_COLOR_TYPE_PALETTE)
 #endif
    {
-      png_crc_finish(png_ptr, 0);
+      png_crc_finish(png_ptr, (int) length - num * 3);
    }
 
 #ifndef PNG_READ_OPT_PLTE_SUPPORTED
diff --git a/pngset.c b/pngset.c
index 8e3f39a..c252088 100644
--- a/pngset.c
+++ b/pngset.c
@@ -517,13 +517,17 @@ png_set_PLTE(png_structp png_ptr, png_infop info_ptr,
     png_const_colorp palette, int num_palette)
 {
 
+   png_uint_32 max_palette_length;
+
    png_debug1(1, "in %s storage function", "PLTE");
 
    if (png_ptr == NULL || info_ptr == NULL)
       return;
 
-   if (num_palette < 0 || num_palette > PNG_MAX_PALETTE_LENGTH)
-   {
+   max_palette_length = (info_ptr->color_type == PNG_COLOR_TYPE_PALETTE) ?
+      (1 << info_ptr->bit_depth) : PNG_MAX_PALETTE_LENGTH;
+
+   if (num_palette < 0 || num_palette > (int) max_palette_length)   {
       if (info_ptr->color_type == PNG_COLOR_TYPE_PALETTE)
          png_error(png_ptr, "Invalid palette length");
 
@@ -551,8 +555,8 @@ png_set_PLTE(png_structp png_ptr, png_infop info_ptr,
    png_free_data(png_ptr, info_ptr, PNG_FREE_PLTE, 0);
 
    /* Changed in libpng-1.2.1 to allocate PNG_MAX_PALETTE_LENGTH instead
-    * of num_palette entries, in case of an invalid PNG file that has
-    * too-large sample values.
+    * of num_palette entries, in case of an invalid PNG file or incorrect
+    * call to png_set_PLTE() with too-large sample values.
     */
    png_ptr->palette = (png_colorp)png_calloc(png_ptr,
        PNG_MAX_PALETTE_LENGTH * png_sizeof(png_color));
diff --git a/pngwutil.c b/pngwutil.c
index 19b75af..7ecaaca 100644
--- a/pngwutil.c
+++ b/pngwutil.c
@@ -896,17 +896,20 @@ void /* PRIVATE */
 png_write_PLTE(png_structp png_ptr, png_const_colorp palette,
     png_uint_32 num_pal)
 {
-   png_uint_32 i;
+   png_uint_32 max_palette_length, i;
    png_const_colorp pal_ptr;
    png_byte buf[3];
 
+   max_palette_length = (png_ptr->color_type == PNG_COLOR_TYPE_PALETTE) ?
+      (1 << png_ptr->bit_depth) : PNG_MAX_PALETTE_LENGTH;
+
    png_debug(1, "in png_write_PLTE");
 
    if ((
 #ifdef PNG_MNG_FEATURES_SUPPORTED
        !(png_ptr->mng_features_permitted & PNG_FLAG_MNG_EMPTY_PLTE) &&
 #endif
-       num_pal == 0) || num_pal > 256)
+       num_pal == 0) || num_pal > max_palette_length)
    {
       if (png_ptr->color_type == PNG_COLOR_TYPE_PALETTE)
       {