diff --git a/test/fuzzing/hb-set-fuzzer.cc b/test/fuzzing/hb-set-fuzzer.cc
index 79b9fc52f..0a547f3a0 100644
--- a/test/fuzzing/hb-set-fuzzer.cc
+++ b/test/fuzzing/hb-set-fuzzer.cc
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@
 
 #include "hb.h"
 
+// Only allow ~5,000 set values between the two input sets.
+// Arbitarily long input sets do not trigger any meaningful
+// differences in behaviour so there's no benefit from allowing
+// the fuzzer to create super large sets.
+#define MAX_INPUT_SIZE 20000
+
 enum set_operation_t : uint8_t
 {
   INTERSECT = 0,
@@ -37,6 +43,9 @@ extern "C" int LLVMFuzzerTestOneInput (const uint8_t *data, size_t size)
   if (size < sizeof (instructions_t))
     return 0;
 
+  if (size > MAX_INPUT_SIZE)
+    return 0;
+
 #pragma GCC diagnostic push
 #pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wstrict-aliasing"
   const instructions_t &instructions = reinterpret_cast<const instructions_t &> (data);