avoid out-of-bounds access when iterating code points

Change-Id: I583e49180b37705ea124c0d88c2e2a8cb1470dfe

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/i18npool/source/breakiterator/xdictionary.cxx b/i18npool/source/breakiterator/xdictionary.cxx
index 567a2db1aced..6f7c1968fea0 100644
--- a/i18npool/source/breakiterator/xdictionary.cxx
+++ b/i18npool/source/breakiterator/xdictionary.cxx
@@ -403,7 +403,9 @@ WordBreakCache& xdictionary::getCache(const sal_Unicode *text, Boundary& wordBou
 Boundary xdictionary::previousWord(const OUString& rText, sal_Int32 anyPos, sal_Int16 wordType)
 {
         // looking for the first non-whitespace character from anyPos
-        sal_uInt32 ch = rText.iterateCodePoints(&anyPos, -1);
+        sal_uInt32 ch = 0;
+        if (anyPos > 0)
+            rText.iterateCodePoints(&anyPos, -1);
 
         while (anyPos > 0 && u_isWhitespace(ch)) ch = rText.iterateCodePoints(&anyPos, -1);