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From: =?UTF-8?q?Caol=C3=A1n=20McNamara?= <caolanm@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 21:40:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ofz#8473 Null-dereference READ
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Change-Id: Id6578d180fec3738be127993f02aaf45af915688
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/54682
Tested-by: Jenkins <ci@libreoffice.org>
Reviewed-by: Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com>
---
 sw/source/core/unocore/unotext.cxx | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sw/source/core/unocore/unotext.cxx b/sw/source/core/unocore/unotext.cxx
index 5d9bde6d73a7..5ecc6fbf399b 100644
--- a/sw/source/core/unocore/unotext.cxx
+++ b/sw/source/core/unocore/unotext.cxx
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ SwXText::insertTextContent(
         pTmp = pTmp->StartOfSectionNode();
     }
     // if the document starts with a section
-    while (pOwnStartNode->IsSectionNode())
+    while (pOwnStartNode && pOwnStartNode->IsSectionNode())
     {
         pOwnStartNode = pOwnStartNode->StartOfSectionNode();
     }