diff --git a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiGraphics.cpp b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiGraphics.cpp
index c32ec2c610..d5c139425b 100644
--- a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiGraphics.cpp
+++ b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiGraphics.cpp
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ GuiGraphics::GuiGraphics(GuiView & lv)
 	connect(groupCO, SIGNAL(currentIndexChanged(int)),
 		this, SLOT(changeGroup(int)));
 
-	displayscale->setValidator(new QIntValidator(displayscale));
+	displayscale->setValidator(new QIntValidator(1, 1000, displayscale));
 
 	bc().setPolicy(ButtonPolicy::NoRepeatedApplyReadOnlyPolicy);
 	bc().setOK(okPB);
diff --git a/status.23x b/status.23x
index db4025448c..076bb4e67d 100644
--- a/status.23x
+++ b/status.23x
@@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ What's new
 
 - Limit zoom value to 1000% to avoid crashes (bug 12452).
 
+- Limit graphics scaling in LyX to 1--1000% to avoid crashes (12353).
+
 - Fix potential crash with 32bit ucs4 codepoints (bug 12519).
 
 - Catch warnings from packages that contain a hyphen in their name