diff --git a/libavformat/aiffdec.c b/libavformat/aiffdec.c
index ff04c2b8f4..f26951dcf8 100644
--- a/libavformat/aiffdec.c
+++ b/libavformat/aiffdec.c
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ static void get_meta(AVFormatContext *s, const char *key, int size)
 }
 
 /* Returns the number of sound data frames or negative on error */
-static unsigned int get_aiff_header(AVFormatContext *s, int size,
+static int get_aiff_header(AVFormatContext *s, int size,
                                     unsigned version)
 {
     AVIOContext *pb        = s->pb;
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ static unsigned int get_aiff_header(AVFormatContext *s, int size,
     AIFFInputContext *aiff = s->priv_data;
     int exp;
     uint64_t val;
-    double sample_rate;
+    int sample_rate;
     unsigned int num_frames;
 
     if (size & 1)
@@ -109,9 +109,16 @@ static unsigned int get_aiff_header(AVFormatContext *s, int size,
     num_frames = avio_rb32(pb);
     codec->bits_per_coded_sample = avio_rb16(pb);
 
-    exp = avio_rb16(pb);
+    exp = avio_rb16(pb) - 16383 - 63;
     val = avio_rb64(pb);
-    sample_rate = ldexp(val, exp - 16383 - 63);
+    if (exp <-63 || exp >63) {
+        av_log(s, AV_LOG_ERROR, "exp %d is out of range\n", exp);
+        return AVERROR_INVALIDDATA;
+    }
+    if (exp >= 0)
+        sample_rate = val << exp;
+    else
+        sample_rate = (val + (1ULL<<(-exp-1))) >> -exp;
     codec->sample_rate = sample_rate;
     size -= 18;