diff --git a/executor/executorMemory.go b/executor/executorMemory.go
index 56bebe052..79a910e02 100644
--- a/executor/executorMemory.go
+++ b/executor/executorMemory.go
@@ -50,10 +50,12 @@ func MemLoadFromMemory(memory Memory, memPtr MemPtr, length MemLength) ([]byte,
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("mem load: %w", ErrMemoryNegativeLength)
 	}
 
-	result := make([]byte, length)
+	var result []byte
 	if isRequestedEndTooLarge {
+		result = make([]byte, memoryLength-uint32(memPtr))
 		copy(result, memoryView[memPtr:])
 	} else {
+		result = make([]byte, requestedEnd-memPtr)
 		copy(result, memoryView[memPtr:requestedEnd])
 	}
 
diff --git a/vmhost/contexts/runtime_test.go b/vmhost/contexts/runtime_test.go
index afb0be054..becf2245b 100644
--- a/vmhost/contexts/runtime_test.go
+++ b/vmhost/contexts/runtime_test.go
@@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ func TestRuntimeContext_MemLoadCases(t *testing.T) {
 	length = 9
 	memContents, err = memLoad(runtimeCtx, offset, length)
 	require.Nil(t, err)
-	require.Equal(t, []byte{'e', 's', 't', ' ', 'd', 'a', 't', 'a', 0}, memContents)
+	require.Equal(t, []byte{'e', 's', 't', ' ', 'd', 'a', 't', 'a'}, memContents)
 
 	// Zero length
 	offset = int32(runtimeCtx.iTracker.instance.MemLength() - 8)