diff --git a/Lib/html/parser.py b/Lib/html/parser.py
index 83a5825..c2c7f6b 100644
--- a/Lib/html/parser.py
+++ b/Lib/html/parser.py
@@ -175,6 +175,9 @@
                     i = self.updatepos(i, k)
                     continue
                 else:
+                    if ";" in rawdata[i:]: #bail by consuming &#
+                        self.handle_data(rawdata[0:2])
+                        i = self.updatepos(i, 2)
                     break
             elif startswith('&', i):
                 match = entityref.match(rawdata, i)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_htmlparser.py b/Lib/test/test_htmlparser.py
index dd74aac..e982218 100755
--- a/Lib/test/test_htmlparser.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_htmlparser.py
@@ -136,6 +136,13 @@
     ("data", "\n"),
     ])
 
+    def test_malformatted_charref(self):
+        self._run_check("<p>&#bad;</p>", [
+            ("starttag", "p", []),
+            ("data", "&#bad;"),
+            ("endtag", "p"),
+        ])
+
     def test_unclosed_entityref(self):
         self._run_check("&entityref foo", [
             ("entityref", "entityref"),