diff --git a/fuzz/fuzz_targets/differential_v8.rs b/fuzz/fuzz_targets/differential_v8.rs
index 882ae6628e..e4546ea8c1 100644
--- a/fuzz/fuzz_targets/differential_v8.rs
+++ b/fuzz/fuzz_targets/differential_v8.rs
@@ -19,7 +19,16 @@ fn run(data: &[u8]) -> Result<()> {
     // Enable features that v8 has implemented
     config.module_config.config.simd_enabled = u.arbitrary()?;
     config.module_config.config.bulk_memory_enabled = u.arbitrary()?;
-    config.module_config.config.reference_types_enabled = u.arbitrary()?;
+
+    // FIXME: reference types are disabled for now as we seemingly keep finding
+    // a segfault in v8. This is found relatively quickly locally and keeps
+    // getting found by oss-fuzz and currently we don't think that there's
+    // really much we can do about it. For the time being disable reference
+    // types entirely. An example bug is
+    // https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=45662
+    //
+    // config.module_config.config.reference_types_enabled = u.arbitrary()?;
+
     // FIXME: to enable fuzzing with the threads proposal, see
     // https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/issues/4268.
     // config.module_config.config.threads_enabled = u.arbitrary()?;