diff --git a/Lib/test/test_marshal.py b/Lib/test/test_marshal.py
index 0cd46a2..7669182 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_marshal.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_marshal.py
@@ -262,6 +262,11 @@
         testString = 'abc' * size
         marshal.dumps(testString)
 
+    def test_invalid_longs(self):
+        # Issue #7019: marshal.loads shouldn't produce unnormalized PyLongs
+        invalid_string = 'l\x02\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, marshal.loads, invalid_string)
+
 
 def test_main():
     test_support.run_unittest(IntTestCase,
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index cb24b3f..9cd6638 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
+  of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
+
 - Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
   after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
 
diff --git a/Python/marshal.c b/Python/marshal.c
index 8f8ac36..1ef41b0 100644
--- a/Python/marshal.c
+++ b/Python/marshal.c
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@
 r_PyLong(RFILE *p)
 {
 	PyLongObject *ob;
-	int size, i, j, md;
+	int size, i, j, md, shorts_in_top_digit;
 	long n;
 	digit d;
 
@@ -569,7 +569,8 @@
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
-	size = 1 + (ABS(n)-1) / PyLong_MARSHAL_RATIO;
+	size = 1 + (ABS(n) - 1) / PyLong_MARSHAL_RATIO;
+	shorts_in_top_digit = 1 + (ABS(n) - 1) % PyLong_MARSHAL_RATIO;
 	ob = _PyLong_New(size);
 	if (ob == NULL)
 		return NULL;
@@ -586,12 +587,21 @@
 		ob->ob_digit[i] = d;
 	}
 	d = 0;
-	for (j=0; j < (ABS(n)-1)%PyLong_MARSHAL_RATIO + 1; j++) {
+	for (j=0; j < shorts_in_top_digit; j++) {
 		md = r_short(p);
 		if (md < 0 || md > PyLong_MARSHAL_BASE)
 			goto bad_digit;
+		/* topmost marshal digit should be nonzero */
+		if (md == 0 && j == shorts_in_top_digit - 1) {
+			Py_DECREF(ob);
+			PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,
+				"bad marshal data (unnormalized long data)");
+			return NULL;
+		}
 		d += (digit)md << j*PyLong_MARSHAL_SHIFT;
 	}
+	/* top digit should be nonzero, else the resulting PyLong won't be
+	   normalized */
 	ob->ob_digit[size-1] = d;
 	return (PyObject *)ob;
   bad_digit: