diff --git a/crypto/objects/obj_dat.c b/crypto/objects/obj_dat.c
index 01cde00e98..c0e55197a0 100644
--- a/crypto/objects/obj_dat.c
+++ b/crypto/objects/obj_dat.c
@@ -443,6 +443,25 @@ int OBJ_obj2txt(char *buf, int buf_len, const ASN1_OBJECT *a, int no_name)
     first = 1;
     bl = NULL;
 
+    /*
+     * RFC 2578 (STD 58) says this about OBJECT IDENTIFIERs:
+     *
+     * > 3.5. OBJECT IDENTIFIER values
+     * >
+     * > An OBJECT IDENTIFIER value is an ordered list of non-negative
+     * > numbers. For the SMIv2, each number in the list is referred to as a
+     * > sub-identifier, there are at most 128 sub-identifiers in a value,
+     * > and each sub-identifier has a maximum value of 2^32-1 (4294967295
+     * > decimal).
+     *
+     * So a legitimate OID according to this RFC is at most (32 * 128 / 7),
+     * i.e. 586 bytes long.
+     *
+     * Ref: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2578#section-3.5
+     */
+    if (len > 586)
+        goto err;
+
     while (len > 0) {
         l = 0;
         use_bn = 0;