diff --git a/src/share/classes/java/security/CodeSource.java b/src/share/classes/java/security/CodeSource.java
index 62a5959ecd80bbd746360ecf3547deef4d19d362..d00cbe33697793d913faf28d926ede2df9580079 100644
--- a/src/share/classes/java/security/CodeSource.java
+++ b/src/share/classes/java/security/CodeSource.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1997, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1997, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -535,6 +535,7 @@ public class CodeSource implements java.io.Serializable {
     {
         CertificateFactory cf;
         Hashtable<String, CertificateFactory> cfs = null;
+        List<java.security.cert.Certificate> certList = null;
 
         ois.defaultReadObject(); // location
 
@@ -544,7 +545,7 @@ public class CodeSource implements java.io.Serializable {
             // we know of 3 different cert types: X.509, PGP, SDSI, which
             // could all be present in the stream at the same time
             cfs = new Hashtable<String, CertificateFactory>(3);
-            this.certs = new java.security.cert.Certificate[size];
+            certList = new ArrayList<>(size > 20 ? 20 : size);
         }
 
         for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
@@ -575,13 +576,17 @@ public class CodeSource implements java.io.Serializable {
             ois.readFully(encoded);
             ByteArrayInputStream bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(encoded);
             try {
-                this.certs[i] = cf.generateCertificate(bais);
+                certList.add(cf.generateCertificate(bais));
             } catch (CertificateException ce) {
                 throw new IOException(ce.getMessage());
             }
             bais.close();
         }
 
+        if (certList != null) {
+            this.certs = certList.toArray(
+                    new java.security.cert.Certificate[size]);
+        }
         // Deserialize array of code signers (if any)
         try {
             this.signers = ((CodeSigner[])ois.readObject()).clone();