diff --git a/crates/create/src/extract.rs b/crates/create/src/extract.rs
index f60f7dd5f4..1b66380302 100644
--- a/crates/create/src/extract.rs
+++ b/crates/create/src/extract.rs
@@ -329,6 +329,15 @@ fn jpeg_samples(data: &[u8], space: &Space, w: usize, h: usize) -> Option<(Vec<u
         Space::Cmyk => return cmyk_jpeg_samples(data, w, h).map(|px| (px, Space::Cmyk)),
         _ => {}
     }
+    // Past the decoder's metadata bound, drop the Extended XMP chunks rather than the mask:
+    // decoded as it stands, an over-chunked JPEG is written as is, without its /SMask.
+    let stripped;
+    let data = if crate::upright_image::decodable_metadata(data) {
+        data
+    } else {
+        stripped = crate::upright_image::without_extended_xmp(data);
+        &stripped[..]
+    };
     let img = jpeg_of_size(data, w, h)?;
     Some(match space {
         Space::Gray => (img.into_luma8().into_raw(), Space::Gray),
diff --git a/crates/create/src/tests.rs b/crates/create/src/tests.rs
index af3124946f..e43353b7de 100644
--- a/crates/create/src/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/create/src/tests.rs
@@ -845,10 +845,11 @@ fn damaged_masks_and_sizes_never_panic() {
 }
 
 #[test]
-fn a_jpeg_with_thousands_of_extended_xmp_chunks_is_exported_without_decoding() {
-    // Export decodes a JPEG with a soft mask, or a JPEG soft mask, to make a PNG with alpha: a JPEG
-    // whose Extended XMP chunks would take the decoder quadratic time is written as it is instead,
-    // and such a mask is left out, without reaching the decoder.
+fn a_jpeg_with_thousands_of_extended_xmp_chunks_keeps_its_mask() {
+    // Export decodes a JPEG with a soft mask, or a JPEG soft mask, to make a PNG with alpha. A JPEG
+    // whose Extended XMP chunks would take the decoder quadratic time is decoded without them,
+    // which is linear in what is left, so the mask survives; a JPEG mask past the same bound is
+    // still left out, without reaching the decoder.
     let flood = crate::upright_image::tests::with_extended_xmp_chunks(&real_jpeg(), 5_000);
     let mut doc = from_images(&[("flat.png".into(), png_bytes(false))]).unwrap();
     with_image(&mut doc, |doc| {
@@ -860,7 +861,12 @@ fn a_jpeg_with_thousands_of_extended_xmp_chunks_is_exported_without_decoding() {
     });
     crate::extract::JPEGS_DECODED.with(|n| n.set(0));
     let out = extract_images(&doc, &[0], 0);
-    assert_eq!((out.images[0].extension, &out.images[0].data), ("jpg", &flood));
+    assert_eq!(out.images[0].extension, "png");
+    assert_eq!(crate::extract::JPEGS_DECODED.with(std::cell::Cell::get), 1);
+    // The chunks themselves are gone, so the decoder never saw them.
+    assert!(!out.images[0].data.windows(5).any(|w| w == b"http:"));
+
+    crate::extract::JPEGS_DECODED.with(|n| n.set(0));
 
     let mut doc = from_images(&[("flat.png".into(), png_bytes(false))]).unwrap();
     with_image(&mut doc, |doc| {
diff --git a/crates/create/src/upright_image.rs b/crates/create/src/upright_image.rs
index e89b47db79..d193a38bfb 100644
--- a/crates/create/src/upright_image.rs
+++ b/crates/create/src/upright_image.rs
@@ -82,7 +82,11 @@ fn extended_xmp_chunks(bytes: &[u8]) -> usize {
 /// JPEG `bytes` without their Extended XMP chunks, which nothing here reads: what is left decodes
 /// in time linear in its size however many chunks the file carried.
 pub(crate) fn without_extended_xmp(bytes: &[u8]) -> Vec<u8> {
-    let mut out = Vec::with_capacity(bytes.len());
+    // Only the bytes that are kept: a CMYK JPEG can be mostly Extended XMP, and reserving the
+    // whole file for the little that remains aborts the export under a tight address-space limit.
+    let mut removed = 0usize;
+    each_extended_xmp(bytes, |r| removed = removed.saturating_add(r.len()));
+    let mut out = Vec::with_capacity(bytes.len().saturating_sub(removed));
     let mut at = 0;
     each_extended_xmp(bytes, |r| {
         out.extend_from_slice(bytes.get(at..r.start).unwrap_or_default());
@@ -114,7 +118,9 @@ fn each_extended_xmp(bytes: &[u8], mut f: impl FnMut(std::ops::Range<usize>)) {
                 let Some(&[hi, lo]) = bytes.get(i.saturating_add(2)..i.saturating_add(4)) else { break };
                 let len = usize::from(u16::from_be_bytes([hi, lo]));
                 let end = i.saturating_add(2).saturating_add(len.max(2));
-                if marker == 0xE1 && bytes.get(i.saturating_add(4)..).is_some_and(|seg| seg.starts_with(PREFIX)) {
+                // The prefix must start the APP1 segment's own payload: a zero-length header
+                // followed by prefix bytes is not a chunk.
+                if marker == 0xE1 && bytes.get(i.saturating_add(4)..end.min(bytes.len())).is_some_and(|seg| seg.starts_with(PREFIX)) {
                     f(i..end.min(bytes.len()));
                 }
                 i = end;