diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
index aa8117fee..bd1d4d892 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 
     <changes>
         <release version="3.8-beta5" date="2011-??-??">
+           <action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">52032 - HWPF - ArrayIndexOutofBoundsException with no stack trace (broken after revision 1178063)</action>
            <action dev="poi-developers" type="add">support for converting pptx files into images with a PPTX2PNG tool</action>
            <action dev="poi-developers" type="add">52050 - Support for the Excel RATE function</action>
            <action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">51566 - HSLF fix for finishing parsing the picture stream on the first non-valid type</action>
diff --git a/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/model/ListFormatOverrideLevel.java b/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/model/ListFormatOverrideLevel.java
index 2cc28b336..0acd9d0c3 100644
--- a/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/model/ListFormatOverrideLevel.java
+++ b/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/model/ListFormatOverrideLevel.java
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ public final class ListFormatOverrideLevel
     public ListFormatOverrideLevel( byte[] buf, int offset )
     {
         _base = new LFOLVLBase( buf, offset );
+        offset += LFOLVLBase.getSize();
 
         if ( _base.isFFormatting() )
         {
diff --git a/src/scratchpad/testcases/org/apache/poi/hwpf/usermodel/TestBugs.java b/src/scratchpad/testcases/org/apache/poi/hwpf/usermodel/TestBugs.java
index 686f29706..17e378d26 100644
--- a/src/scratchpad/testcases/org/apache/poi/hwpf/usermodel/TestBugs.java
+++ b/src/scratchpad/testcases/org/apache/poi/hwpf/usermodel/TestBugs.java
@@ -719,4 +719,15 @@ public class TestBugs extends TestCase
         HWPFTestDataSamples.writeOutAndReadBack( HWPFTestDataSamples
                 .openSampleFile( "Bug51834.doc" ) );
     }
+    
+    /**
+     * Bug 52032 - [BUG] & [partial-PATCH] HWPF - ArrayIndexOutofBoundsException
+     * with no stack trace (broken after revision 1178063)
+     */
+    public void testBug52032() throws Exception
+    {
+        HWPFTestDataSamples.openSampleFile( "Bug52032.doc" );
+        HWPFTestDataSamples.writeOutAndReadBack( HWPFTestDataSamples
+                .openSampleFile( "Bug52032.doc" ) );
+    }
 }
diff --git a/test-data/document/Bug52032.doc b/test-data/document/Bug52032.doc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c91d240bf
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