diff --git a/avro/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/avro/deser/JacksonAvroParserImpl.java b/avro/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/avro/deser/JacksonAvroParserImpl.java
index 688704814..07fb43bd2 100644
--- a/avro/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/avro/deser/JacksonAvroParserImpl.java
+++ b/avro/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/avro/deser/JacksonAvroParserImpl.java
@@ -700,13 +700,13 @@ private final void _finishLongText(int len) throws IOException
                 break;
             case 3: // 4-byte UTF
                 c = _decodeUTF8_4(c);
-                // Let's add first part right away:
-                outBuf[outPtr++] = (char) (0xD800 | (c >> 10));
                 if (outPtr >= outBuf.length) {
                     outBuf = _textBuffer.finishCurrentSegment();
                     outPtr = 0;
                     outEnd = outBuf.length;
                 }
+                // Let's add first part right away:
+                outBuf[outPtr++] = (char) (0xD800 | (c >> 10));
                 c = 0xDC00 | (c & 0x3FF);
                 // And let the other char output down below
                 break;
diff --git a/avro/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/avro/fuzz/AvroFuzz449_65618_IOOBETest.java b/avro/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/avro/fuzz/AvroFuzz449_65618_65649_IOOBETest.java
similarity index 61%
rename from avro/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/avro/fuzz/AvroFuzz449_65618_IOOBETest.java
rename to avro/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/avro/fuzz/AvroFuzz449_65618_65649_IOOBETest.java
index 6e55c8056..c9fa0f5e0 100644
--- a/avro/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/avro/fuzz/AvroFuzz449_65618_IOOBETest.java
+++ b/avro/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/avro/fuzz/AvroFuzz449_65618_65649_IOOBETest.java
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.avro.AvroTestBase;
 
 // [dataformats-binary#449]
-public class AvroFuzz449_65618_IOOBETest extends AvroTestBase
+public class AvroFuzz449_65618_65649_IOOBETest extends AvroTestBase
 {
     @JsonPropertyOrder({ "name", "value" })
     static class RootType {
@@ -20,26 +20,36 @@ static class RootType {
         public int value;
     }
 
-    @Test
-    public void testFuzz65618IOOBE() throws Exception {
-        final AvroFactory factory = AvroFactory.builderWithNativeDecoder().build();
-        final AvroMapper mapper = new AvroMapper(factory);
-
-        final byte[] doc = {
-            (byte) 2, (byte) 22, (byte) 36, (byte) 2, (byte) 0,
-            (byte) 0, (byte) 8, (byte) 3, (byte) 3, (byte) 3,
-            (byte) 122, (byte) 3, (byte) -24
-        };
+    final private AvroFactory factory = AvroFactory.builderWithNativeDecoder().build();
+    final private AvroMapper mapper = new AvroMapper(factory);
 
+    private void testFuzzIOOBE(byte[] input, String msg) throws Exception {
         final AvroSchema schema = mapper.schemaFor(RootType.class);
-        try (AvroParser p =  (AvroParser) mapper.createParser(doc)) {
+        try (AvroParser p =  (AvroParser) mapper.createParser(input)) {
             p.setSchema(schema);
             assertToken(JsonToken.START_OBJECT, p.nextToken());
             assertToken(JsonToken.FIELD_NAME, p.nextToken());
             p.nextToken();
+            p.nextToken();
             fail("Should not pass (invalid content)");
         } catch (StreamReadException e) {
-            verifyException(e, "Malformed 2-byte UTF-8 character at the end of");
+            verifyException(e, msg);
         }
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testFuzz65618_IOOBE() throws Exception {
+        final byte[] doc = {
+            (byte) 2, (byte) 22, (byte) 36, (byte) 2, (byte) 0,
+            (byte) 0, (byte) 8, (byte) 3, (byte) 3, (byte) 3,
+            (byte) 122, (byte) 3, (byte) -24
+        };
+        testFuzzIOOBE(doc, "Malformed 2-byte UTF-8 character at the end of");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testFuzz65649_IOOBE() throws Exception {
+        final byte[] doc = AvroFuzzTestUtil.readResource("/data/fuzz-65649.avro");
+        testFuzzIOOBE(doc, "Invalid UTF-8 start byte 0x80");
+    }
 }
diff --git a/avro/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/avro/fuzz/AvroFuzzTestUtil.java b/avro/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/avro/fuzz/AvroFuzzTestUtil.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e7e6b30d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/avro/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/avro/fuzz/AvroFuzzTestUtil.java
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+package com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.avro.fuzz;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+
+public class AvroFuzzTestUtil
+{
+    public static byte[] readResource(String ref)
+    {
+       ByteArrayOutputStream bytes = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+       final byte[] buf = new byte[4000];
+
+       InputStream in = AvroFuzzTestUtil.class.getResourceAsStream(ref);
+       if (in != null) {
+           try {
+               int len;
+               while ((len = in.read(buf)) > 0) {
+                   bytes.write(buf, 0, len);
+               }
+               in.close();
+           } catch (IOException e) {
+               throw new RuntimeException("Failed to read resource '"+ref+"': "+e);
+           }
+       }
+       if (bytes.size() == 0) {
+           throw new IllegalArgumentException("Failed to read resource '"+ref+"': empty resource?");
+       }
+       return bytes.toByteArray();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/avro/src/test/resources/data/fuzz-65649.avro b/avro/src/test/resources/data/fuzz-65649.avro
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..78a1d3bcd
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