1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/stdlib/text.c b/src/stdlib/text.c
index cc8a4daf..2107c1df 100644
--- a/src/stdlib/text.c
+++ b/src/stdlib/text.c
@@ -1620,7 +1620,8 @@ public void Text$deserialize(FILE *in, void *out, List_t *pointers, const TypeIn
     int64_t len = -1;
     Int64$deserialize(in, &len, pointers, &Int64$info);
     char *buf = GC_MALLOC_ATOMIC((size_t)len+1);
-    fread(buf, sizeof(char), (size_t)len, in);
+    if (fread(buf, sizeof(char), (size_t)len, in) != (size_t)len)
+        fail("Not enough data in stream to deserialize");
     buf[len+1] = '\0';
     *(Text_t*)out = Text$from_strn(buf, (size_t)len);
 }