diff --git a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/StringCoding.java b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/StringCoding.java
index 097c156654..a2aa7c7787 100644
--- a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/StringCoding.java
+++ b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/StringCoding.java
@@ -23,6 +23,12 @@
  * questions.
  */
 
+/*
+* ===========================================================================
+* (c) Copyright IBM Corp. 2024, 2024 All Rights Reserved
+* ===========================================================================
+*/
+
 package java.lang;
 
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
@@ -94,7 +100,11 @@ private static byte[] safeTrim(byte[] ba, int len, boolean isTrusted) {
     private static int scale(int len, float expansionFactor) {
         // We need to perform double, not float, arithmetic; otherwise
         // we lose low order bits when len is larger than 2**24.
-        return (int)(len * (double)expansionFactor);
+        double result = len * (double)expansionFactor;
+        if (result > (double)Integer.MAX_VALUE) {
+            throw new OutOfMemoryError("Requested array size exceeds limit");
+        }
+        return (int)result;
     }
 
     private static Charset lookupCharset(String csn) {